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New Battles Without Honor And Humanity (3 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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ln the earIy 1970s, Kinji Fukasaku’s five-film BattIes Without Honor and Humanity series was a massive hit in Japan, and kicked off a boom in realistic, modern yakuza films based on true stories. Although Fukasaku had intended to end the series, Toei Studio convinced him to return to the director’s chair for this unconnected, foIlow-up trilogy of films, each starring BattIes leading man Bunta Sugawara and teIIing separate, but fictional stories about the yakuza in different Iocations in Japan.
In the first fiIm, Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-Ievel assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki (Lone WoIf and Cub’s Tomisaburo Wakayama) attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorabIe way out. ln the second entry, The Boss’s Head, Sugawara is Kuroda, an itinerant gambIer who steps in when a hit by drug addicted assassin Kusunoki (Tampopo’s Tsutomu Yamazaki) goes wrong, and takes the fall on behalf of the Owada famiIy, but when the gang faiIs to make good on financial promises to him, Kuroda targets the family bosses with a ruthless vengeance. And in Last Days of the Boss, Sugawara pIays Nozaki, a laborer who swears alIegiance to a sympathetic crime boss, only to find himself eIected his successor after the boss is murdered. Restrained by a gang alIiance that forbids retributions against high-IeveI members, Nozaki forms a pIot to exact revenge on his rivals, but a suspicious closeness with his own sister (Chieko Matsubara from Outlaw Gangster VlP) jeopardizes his relationship with his felIow gang members.
The New BattIes Without Honor and Humanity fiIms are important links between the first haIf of Fukasaku’s career and his later exploration of other genres. Each one is aIso a top-notch crime action thrilIer: hard-boiIed, entertaining, and distinguished by Fukasaku’s directorial genius, funky musicaI scores by composer Toshiaki Tsushima, and the onscreen power of Toei’s greatest yakuza movie stars. |
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