Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Japanese release poster
Directed by	Kinji Fukasaku
Produced by	Goro Kusakabe
Written by	Kazuo Kasahara Koji Shundo (concept) Kōichi Iiboshi (original story)
Starring	Kinya Kitaoji Shinichi Chiba Bunta Sugawara Meiko Kaji Mikio Narita
Narrated by	Tetsu Sakai
Music by	Toshiaki Tsushima
Cinematography	Sadaji Yoshida
Edited by	Shintaro Miyamoto
Distributed by	Toei
Release date	April 28, 1973
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (Japanese: 仁義なき戦い　広島死闘篇, Hepburn: Jingi Naki Tatakai: Hiroshima Shitō-hen^?), also known as Hiroshima Death Match, is a 1973 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It is the second film in a five-part series that Fukasaku made in a span of just two years. It is the only movie in the series not to focus on Bunta Sugawara's character Shozo Hirono; instead it follows the rise and fall of Shoji Yamanaka, played by Kinya Kitaoji.

In 1950 Hiroshima City, Shoji Yamanaka is involved in a fight over cheating in a card game and stabs several men. He is sentenced to two years in prison, where he befriends Shozo Hirono. When he is released from prison, the waitress at a restaurant offers to let him eat for free but a gang led by Katsutoshi Otomo, the rebellious son of Choji Otomo, beat him. He is saved by Otomo senior and is offered to join the yakuza by Muraoka, the waitress Yasuko's uncle. Yamanaka serves under Muraoka's sworn brother Kunimatsu Takanashi, until he is chased out of Hiroshima by Muraoka for beginning a romantic relationship with the widowed Yasuko.

Yamanaka redeems himself a year later by performing an assassination for the yakuza family he was staying with, and Muraoka welcomes him back as a formal member in a ceremony witnessed by Kanichi Tokimori. Katsutoshi Otomo is kicked out of his family by his father for causing problems with Muraoka and aligns himself with Tokimori, however, Tokimori is then banned from working in Hiroshima. Tokimori flees to Kure, while Katsutoshi attacks the Muraoka office starting a war.

In Kure, Hirono's former boss Yamamori pays Hirono and his small family to protect Tokimori while he works to resolve the dispute. However, when Yamanaka shows up in Kure, Hirono decides to sacrifice Tokimori to prevent further bloodshed. Muraoka settles with the Otomo family, on the grounds that Katsutoshi disband his family. Muraoka also gives his blessing for Yamanaka to pursue Yasuko, but soon after calls on him to kill three of Katsutoshi's men who planned to take over the Otomo family and continue war against him. Yamanaka is arrested for the murders and sentenced to life in prison.