Battles Without Honor and Humanity

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973

1h 39m

7.4(113 votes)

Drama

Crime

Overview

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

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70 members

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菅原文太

Shozo Hirono

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松方弘樹

Tetsuya Sakai

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田中邦衛

Masakichi Makihara

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中村英子

Suzue Kunihiro

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渡瀬恒彦

Toshio Arita

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伊吹吾郎

Ueda

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金子信雄

Yoshio Yamamori

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木村俊恵

Mrs. Yamamori

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川地民夫

Kanbara Seiichi

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渚まゆみ

Akiko Shinjo

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内田朝雄

Okubo Kenichi

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三上真一郎

Shinkai Uichi

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名和宏

Doi

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高野眞二

Kaneko Shoichi

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曽根晴美

Shuji Yano

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中村錦司

Nakahara Shigeto

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林彰太郎

Matsunaga Takeshi

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福本清三

Shimonaka Ryuji

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高宮敬二

Yamakata Shinichi

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小池朝雄

Narrator

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江幡高志

Constable Maekawa

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Naotsugu Uzaki

Sugitani Nobuhiko

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野口貴史

Iwami Masuo

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大前均

Nogata Mamoru

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Kazutarō Kuni

Kakiuchi Jiro

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Gorō Ōki

Otake Isamu

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Keiko Kojima

Keiko

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平沢彰

Yashiro Mitsuharu

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西田良

Takano Shinji

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Kōjiro Shirakawa

Furuya Makoto

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志賀勝

Yokoyama Nobuo

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唐沢民賢

Chief Investigator Nakamura

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榊浩子

Akemi

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小林千枝

Yamashiro Sawa

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東龍子

Kunihiro Tome

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川谷拓三

Ryoichi Enami

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Yukio Miyagi

Kawanishi Tamotsu

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Kenji Ikeda

Terauchi Hachiro

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笹木俊志

Nishitani Hideo

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Yoshiki Yamada

Detective Katani

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疋田泰盛

Detective Komuro

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岩尾正隆

Kinagashi

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壬生新太郎

Yanagida Toshiji

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木谷邦臣

Kawanami Tokio

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Yûsuke Tsukasa

Nukita Hideo

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Tsuyoshi Arita

Mizutani Bunji

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Tetsuo Fujisawa

Kuramitsu Masayoshi

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Hideo Fujimoto

Utsumori Noburo

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Yasuo Matsumoto

Ishido Torao

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西山清孝

Yoshinaga Shun

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Satoru Nabe

Anjo Keisuke

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Teruo Fujinaga

Hiroishi Kinsaku

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友金敏雄

Wakita Noboru

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Tamaro Murata

Clothing Shopkeeper

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Shinji Oda

Keeper

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小峰隆司

Mikuni Man

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Yasushi Ōshiro

Keeper

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松田トシ

Keeper

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波多野博

Policeman

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片桐竜次

Mesaki Takeshi

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Aki Takagi

Hatsuko

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Toshio Kitagawa

Kusuda Joichi

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梅宮辰夫

Hiroshi Wakasugi

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加藤武

Noburo Uchimoto

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遠藤太津朗

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山本麟一

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小林旭

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成田三樹夫

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池玲子

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丹波哲郎

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