The Final Episode of the Battles Without Honour and Humanity series brought a new, more contemporary mood to the film and its characters. The yakuza may be starting to resemble a legitimate business, but director Kinji Fukasaku, working with new screenwriter Koji Takada, never lets the audience forget their violent origins, and their tried-and-true methods of accomplishing their business. 1966. After a police crackdown, the gangs of Hiroshima and Kure have formed a massive, multi-family political and economic coalition called the Tensei Group, seeking a way forward... into the 1970's as part of Japan's economic bubble. Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) finds himself increasingly alienated from this semi-legitimate form of corruption, particularly as acting Tensei Group chairman Matsumura (Kinya Kitaoji) tries to put the gangs on a new, more business-like path. But old habits die hard, and when rivalries surface once again, they bring with them the promise of more bloodshed. The long-awaited conclusion to the epic series is an elegy for the bad guy, with the harsh realization that Japan's economic growth came about only through the sacrifice of the blood of its young men, victims of twenty long years of Battles Without Honour and Humanity. [show more]
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The final instalment of the Japanese action series directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Following the police crackdown on gang warfare, the Hiroshima crime families broker an uneasy alliance by forming a political coalition called the Tensei Group. However, renowned yakuza Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) finds himself increasingly alienated from the semi-legitimate attempts to take advantage of Japan's thriving economy and soon sparks tensions within the group when old rivalries resurface once again.
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