The start of the greatest Yakuza series ever!
This was the first movie in the five part series by director Kinji Fukasaku, the greatest purveyor of the Yakuza (gangster) film in 1970s Japan. Released as Battles Without Honor and Humanity, here as The Yakuza Papers, the story was based upon the biography of an actual gangster from Hiroshima province and his rise in the ranks after World War II up to the 1970s. Fukasaku was known for his realistic style and his portrayal of the Yakuza as a bunch of violent, backstabbing and scheming criminals rather than the traditional view they’d been given in Japanese cinema as people living by a code that almost mirrored the samurai.<br /><br />Volume one starts in Kure City, Hiroshima province in 1946 immediately after the end of World War I. Japan was in a sorry state and the population was struggling. Civilians and plenty of veterans frequent the black market which gave rise to a series of gangs that would challenge the pre-war Yakuza. One such organization was the Yamamori family that would take in Hirono Shozo (Bunta Sugawara) the main character in all five films. That family would expand, divide, go to war with others, and eventually turn on each other. The ending is very fitting for this theme.<br /><br />If you want to watch any Yakuza movies you have to watch Battles Without Honor and Humanity-Yakuza Papers.<br />C
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) and his buddies find themselves in a new war between fractious and ambitious yakuza. After joining boss Yamamori, Shozo is drawn into a feud with his sworn brother¹s family, the Dois. But that¹s where the chivalry of traditional yakuza film ends and the hypocrisy, betrayal, and assassinations begin. A rare and critical perspective on the history of Japan after World War II, BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY is a tour-de-force that revolutionized the yakuza genre and launched Kinji Fukasaku and Bunta Sugawara to international stardom..