Battles Without Honour and Humanity 2: Hiroshima Death Match (1973)

Review: Battles Without Honour and Humanity 2: Hiroshima Death Match (1973)

Director: Kinji Fukasaku

Cast: Bunta Sugawara, Shin'ichi Chiba, Kinya Kitaoji, Hiroshi Nawa, Mikio Narita,

Bunta Sugawara
Bunta Sugawara
Shin'ichi Chiba
Shin'ichi Chiba
Kinya Kitaoji
Kinya Kitaoji
Hiroshi Nawa
Hiroshi Nawa
Mikio Narita
Mikio Narita

Plot: Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.

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Kinji Fukasaku’s Yakuza epic

Kinji Fukasaku’s Yakuza epic

Arrow releases yet another impressive limited edition box-set with their dual-format edition of Kinji Fukasaku’s Battles Without Honor and Humanity, a key work in the transition of Japanese cinema from the “classical” post-war […]

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