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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
JAPAN · 1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Kinji Fukasaku
yakuza crime families hitman contracts gang violence forbidden romance territorial power struggles
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Synopsis

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.

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