The Yakuza Papers Collection
While The Godfather romanticized the American Mafia in the early 1970s, 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 II epic that broke Japanese box-office records, this complex, utterly authentic cycle of gangster films replaced the popular ninkyo or "chivalry" films of the '60s 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 history" that had been ignored by the "official" factual record.
5 Movie
Revenue: $2,140,000
Budget: $400,000
Profit: $1,740,000
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
June 29, 1974
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
January 15, 1974
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
September 25, 1973
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
April 28, 1973
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
January 13, 1973