New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974 film)
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity is a 1974 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It begins a new series of films with unrelated plots, based on the director's earlier Battles Without Honor and Humanity pentalogy. New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head followed in 1975 and New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Last Days of the Boss in 1976.
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Kinji Fukasaku was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Known for his "broad range and innovative filmmaking", Fukasaku worked in many different genres and styles, but was best known for his gritty yakuza films, typified by the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series (1973–1976). According to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, "his turbulent energy and at times extreme violence express a cynical critique of social conditions and genuine sympathy for those left out of Japan's postwar prosperity." He used a cinema verite-inspired shaky camera technique in many of his films from the early 1970s.
Kinji Fukasaku