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Bunta Sugawara,
Horoki Matsukata,
Tatsuo Umemiya,
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Kinji Fukasaku
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: Homevision
: Foreign, Japan, Crime, Yakuza, WWII
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Kinji Fukasaku directed this powerful and uncompromising look at the deadly stakes of life among the Yakuza -- the Japanese Mafia. Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) is a former Japanese soldier who, following his nation's defeat in World War II, finds himself in a prison cell in Hiroshima on a murder charge. While behind bars, Hirono gains a loyal friend in fellow criminal Wagasugi (Tatsuo Umemiya), and upon his release Hirono joins Wagasugi in an underworld gang. What starts as a seemingly easy way to earn some quick money becomes something darker and bloodier as Wagasugi and his comrades fall into a violent street war against another mob faction that grows into a long-standing feud. Jingi naki tatakai (aka The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor and Humanity) was the first in a series of five successful crime films from Fukasaku. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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by liversounds
December 28, 2005 - 9:29 AM PST
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2 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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| All of the "Yakuza Papers" films are brilliant, masterpieces, and I want to cry now being done with the series and realizing that there can be no more... the writing is intricate and powerful, the directing profound and gripping, the acting unbelievably raw... suggestion: don't hesitate to pause and rewind in order to catch the names/titles of the myriad characters--again, the story line is extremely intricate... enjoy! |
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