Name: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action
Released: 1974-01-15
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Bunta Sugawara, Tatsuo Umemiya, Toshio Kurosawa, Kunie Tanaka, Shingo Yamashiro

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1974·Crime·1h 41m

7.1

★

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

assassination

police

yakuza

gang war

hiroshima, japan

murder

mob boss

1960s

crackdown

shōwa era (1926-89)

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Cast

Bunta Sugawara

Shozo Hirono

Tatsuo Umemiya

Shinichi Iwai

Toshio Kurosawa

Shigeru Takemoto

Kunie Tanaka

Masakichi Makihara

Shingo Yamashiro

Shoichi Eda

Ichirō Ogura

Hiroshi Nozaki

Akio Hasegawa

Yasuki Fukuda

Shinichirō Mikami

Hidemitsu Kawada

Isao Natsuyagi

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Toshie Kimura

Toshika

Sanae Nakahara

Kikue

Mayumi Nagisa

Mieko

Crew

Kinji Fukasaku

Director

Kazuo Kasahara

Screenplay

Koichi Iiboshi

Story

Popular Reviews

11 reviews

Joey_Sockitume

9.9★ · 04/28/25

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

Genre defining stuff. Iwai with the bleached (shaved?) eyebrows strikes me as a total psycho. A blur in the best way possible.

Yoavbergel

10.0★ · 04/16/24

(4/8) wow what a great film in this one you the war that was building up in the last chapter and the squeeze that his been put by the police on the gang and the ending Sets up the exception and story of the next chapter the final episode

David Brook

8.0★ · 01/06/16

My review: http://blueprintreview.co.uk/2016/01/battles-without-honour-and-humanity/

Pretentious

6.0★ · 02/12/26

Mapou

7.0★ · 12/23/25