New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974 film)
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| Directed by | Kinji Fukasaku |
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Koichi Iiboshi (story) Fumio Kōnami (screenplay) |
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Bunta Sugawara Hiroki Matsukata Nobuo Kaneko Kunie Tanaka Tomisaburō Wakayama |
| Music by | Toshiaki Tsushima |
| Cinematography | Sadaji Yoshida |
| Distributed by | Toei |
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98 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Japanese: 新仁義なき戦い Hepburn: Shin Jingi Naki Tatakai?) is a 1974 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.
Miyoshi Makio, a member of the Yamamori crime family, is involved in a bungled hit that fails to kill his target and must therefore serve a prison sentence. At the same time, Aoki, another member of the same family, is working to seize power from the family's boss, Mr. Yamamori. Aware of this threat, the boss and his wife visit Makio in prison to offer him favors in exchange for ridding them of Aoki at a future date when he is released. Aoki in turn is looking to take over the family and also seeks the support of Makio for his own bid for power. Even after his release Makio is reluctant to take sides, hoping to keep the family from tearing itself apart, but in the end he is forced to take action.
Following the success of the original five-part Battles Without Honor and Humanity series Fukasaku was already planning on continuing with further yakuza-themed films but Toei was more interested in direct sequels to the successful series so Fukasaku created this new series featuring many of the same performers from the previous series in new roles in three separate films with completely unrelated plotlines. The only actor playing the same role is Nobuo Kaneko as family boss Yoshio Yamamori.
Two sequels with unrelated plotlines followed:
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