Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
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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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A relentless descent into the brutal, unforgiving world of organized crime. Expect visceral violence, shifting allegiances, and a pervasive sense of doom. This is pure, unadulterated yakuza grit.
grittybrutalnihilisticcynicalsteadyyakuza filmneo-noirgrindhouseperiod pieceloyaltybetrayalviolencesurvival
yakuzashōwa era (1926-89)
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