New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Last Days
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| Directed by | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Written by | Kōji Takada |
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Bunta Sugawara Meiko Kaji Tsutomu Yamazaki |
| Music by | Toshiaki Tsushima |
| Cinematography | Tōru Nakajima |
| Distributed by | Toei |
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91 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Last Days (Japanese: 新仁義なき戦い 組長最後の日 Hepburn: Shin Jingi Naki Tatakai: Kumicho Saigo no Hi?) is a 1976 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It is the third and final film in the series of films with unrelated plotlines, following New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974) and New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head (1975).
A minor dispute between Osaka's Sakamoto family and Amagasaki's Kawahara family grows into a major conflict leading to the deaths of several members of both families. During this time Nozaki's boss is killed and Nozaki cannot honorably assume his position as the new boss until he avenges his own boss's death. When the disputing parties attempt to form an alliance whereby no one at the higher levels of the families will be killed, Nozaki does not feel that it honors his boss's death and refuses to stop until he has killed an enemy of equivalent rank in retaliation. He makes several attempts on Sakamoto's life and is finally injured and caught by the police during a failed attempt to kill Sakamoto in an airport. Nozaki recovers in the hospital while Sakamoto is being hidden in the airport hotel during his recovery. Nozaki's sister offers herself to Shinkichi in return for his aid in helping Nozaki escape from the hospital before he is sent to jail. With his aid Nozaki escapes but when they reach the airport hotel Shinkichi is shot dead. Nozaki reaches Sakamoto's room and finds him already nearly dead but shoots him anyway. He surrenders to the police and as he is being led away he is stabbed in the stomach by one of Sakamoto's loyal men. He survives and is driven away looking at his own bloody hands in handcuffs.
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