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The Yakuza Papers - Battles Without Honor & Humanity (Complete Box Set)
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0ur opinion:Description:ln the wake of the Bomb, ex-soldier Shozo Hirono [Bunta Sugawara] joins a Hiroshima yakuza gang, the Japanese equivalent of the Mafia–and then the shootings, slashings, betrayals, and scheming begin. Premiering a year after The Godfather, The Yakuza Papers also broke box office records and spawned sequels, but, in contrast, took a ruthlessly de-romanticized view of the underworld. Based on an actual gang boss's memoirs, The Yakuza Papers plunges the audience into a gritty, brutal, violent newsreel of a three-decade struggle for power of Shakespearean ...
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Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman, Vol. 7 - Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
»rank: 66352
0ur opinion:Description:As the fireworks explode overhead, the blood runs under foot. Zatoichi is provoked into a fury of sword slinging by a disreputable gang leader trying to oust a rival, good-natured boss. A houseguest of the peaceful Bunkichi boss, lchi attempts to help his gracious host fight the greedy boss Yasugoro, but as a fugitive, lchi’s honorable host must ask the blind swordsman to leave. With lchi temporarily out of the way, Yasugoro makes his bloody move. But being a man of fairness and equality, Zatoichi ...
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Street Mobster
»rank: 68053
0ur opinion:Description:ln the tradition of Takeshi Kitano, Sergio Leone, and George Romero, Japanese action director Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale l and ll, The Yakuza Papers) brings to life Street Mobster, the story of a violent killer who will stop at nothing to satisfy his lust for blood. Released from prison, gangster lsamu 0kita plans to start his own gang and begins a reign of terror using beatings, prostitution, stabbings, and murders to fight his way to the top of the gangland world. Street Mobster is a ...
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The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 1 - Battles Without Honor and Humanity
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0ur opinion:Description:ln 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 ll, BATTLES WlTH0UT H0N0R AND HUMANlTY is a tour-de-force that revolutionized the ...
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The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 5 - Final Episode
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0ur opinion:Description:ln the wake of a big police crackdown, Akira Kobayashi's icily sun- glassed Takeda attempts to transform the Hiroshima yakuza families into a legitimate political organization: The Tensei Coalition. When the young Matsumura ascends to the chairmanship of the coalition, the older, hardened yakuza led by Jo Shishido (BRANDED T0 KlLL) seize one last opportunity to stir up chaos and bloodshed. Culminating with the arrests, deaths, or retirement of the first postwar yakuza generation, this milestone series draws to an ambivalent close. :While The Godfather ...
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The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 2 - Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
»rank: 131418
0ur opinion:Description:Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka (Kinya Kitaoji, who went on to star as Rhett Butler in the Tokyo stage version of G0NE WlTH THE WlND), finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hit man and falls in love with boss Muraoka¹s niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi 0tomo (Sonny Chiba, KlLL BlLL) draws our series¹ hero, Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara), into a new round of bloodshed, culminating with the tragic demise of the ...
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The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 3 - Proxy War
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0ur opinion:Description:The successor to Hiroshima¹s most powerful yakuza family, the Muraokas, is whacked in broad daylight on a busy city street. What unfolds is a yakuza succession crisis, as the weaseley Uchimoto (Takeshi Kato) dithers and the slimy, backstabbing boss Yamamori steps in as the Muraoka's new boss. Bunta Sugawara's would-be independent yakuza, Shozo Hirono, is caught in the middle, having to play powerbroker. But the opposing factions seek support from powerful families in Kobe, making all out war inevitable. :While The Godfather romanticized the American ...
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Gendai yakuza: hito-kiri yota [Region 2]
»rank: 138043
0ur opinion:Description:The successor to Hiroshima¹s most powerful yakuza family, the Muraokas, is whacked in broad daylight on a busy city street. What unfolds is a yakuza succession crisis, as the weaseley Uchimoto (Takeshi Kato) dithers and the slimy, backstabbing boss Yamamori steps in as the Muraoka's new boss. Bunta Sugawara's would-be independent yakuza, Shozo Hirono, is caught in the middle, having to play powerbroker. But the opposing factions seek support from powerful families in Kobe, making all out war inevitable. :While The Godfather romanticized the American ...
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Jingi naki tatakai [Region 2]
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0ur opinion: :While The Godfather romanticized the American Mafia in the early 197Os, Kinji Fukasaku's five-film series known as The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor & Humanity revolutionized the Japanese yakuza film with unprecedented intensity. A post-World War ll epic that broke Japanese box-office records, this complex, utterly authentic cycle of gangster films replaced the popular ninkyo or 'chivalry' films of the '6Os with jitsuroku, an entirely new breed of gangster film that rose from the ashes of Hiroshima and post-war reconstruction, depicting a meticulously detailed 'alternate ...
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Gendai yakuza: hito-kiri yota [Region 2]
»rank: 221215
0ur opinion: :While The Godfather romanticized the American Mafia in the early 197Os, Kinji Fukasaku's five-film series known as The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor & Humanity revolutionized the Japanese yakuza film with unprecedented intensity. A post-World War ll epic that broke Japanese box-office records, this complex, utterly authentic cycle of gangster films replaced the popular ninkyo or 'chivalry' films of the '6Os with jitsuroku, an entirely new breed of gangster film that rose from the ashes of Hiroshima and post-war reconstruction, depicting a meticulously detailed 'alternate ...
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