Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)

Overview · Where to watch · Cast & crew · Reviews

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

• Released: 1973-01-13
• Genres: Crime, Action, Drama
• Runtime: 1h 39m
• Status: Released
• TMDB rating: 7.3/10 from 126 votes

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku.

Top cast

• Bunta Sugawara as Shozo Hirono
• Hiroki Matsukata as Tetsuya Sakai
• Kunie Tanaka as Masakichi Makihara
• Eiko Nakamura as Suzue Kunihiro
• Tsunehiko Watase as Toshio Arita
• Gorō Ibuki as Ueda
• Nobuo Kaneko as Yoshio Yamamori
• Toshie Kimura as Mrs. Yamamori
• Tamio Kawachi as Kanbara Seiichi
• Mayumi Nagisa as Akiko Shinjo

Full cast & crew

Where to watch Battles Without Honor and Humanity

• United States: stream on Philo, ARROW; rent on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, YouTube, Fandango At Home; buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, YouTube, Fandango At Home
• United Kingdom: stream on Arrow Video Amazon Channel, ARROW; rent on Apple TV Store, Amazon Video, YouTube; buy on Apple TV Store, Amazon Video, YouTube
• Canada: stream on ARROW

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