The Yakuza Papers Collection
5 Movies
While The Godfather romanticized the American Mafia in the early 1970s, Kinji Fukasaku's five-film series known as The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor & Humanity revolutionized the Japanese yakuza film with unprecedented intensity. A post-World War II epic that broke Japanese box-office records, this complex, utterly authentic cycle of gangster films replaced the popular ninkyo or "chivalry" films of the '60s with jitsuroku, an entirely new breed of gangster film that rose from the ashes of Hiroshima and post-war reconstruction, depicting a meticulously detailed "alternate history" that had been ignored by the "official" factual record.
ALL MOVIES IN ORDER
1. Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973 · ★ 7.4
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new…
2. Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1973 · ★ 7.3
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a…
3. Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973 · ★ 7.0
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and e…
4. Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1974 · ★ 7.0
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under press…
5. Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1974 · ★ 7.2
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party,…