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Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Jingi Naki Tatakai, 仁義なき戦い) is a groundbreaking 1973 yakuza film by Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku. It is the first film in a five-part series that is known as The Yakuza Papers.

The violent, documentary-style film chronicles the underworld tribulations of Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara), a young ex-soldier and street thug in post-War Hiroshima.

Starting in the open-air black markets of bombed-out Hiroshima in 1945, the film spans a period of more than 10 years. It gave way to four sequels, which form a sprawling yakuza epic. It is often called "the Japanese Godfather
".

The title refers to the post-war yakuza's lack of jingi, a Japanese term loosely translated as "honor and humanity". Previous yakuza movies had, for the most part, been tales of chivalry set in pre-war Japan. A commercial and critical success, Battles Without Honor and Humanity changed that, and Japanese cinema, forever.

Sequels

The film's success quickly spawned four sequels:

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deathmatch in Hiroshima (1973)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974)

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