New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Trilogy Blu-ray Movie

Overview

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Trilogy (1974-1976)

Kinji Fukasaku's five-film Battles Without Honor and Humanity series was a massive hit in Japan, and kicked off a boom in realistic, modern yakuza films based on true stories. Although Fukasaku had intended to end the series, Toei Studio convinced him to return to the director's chair for this unconnected, follow-up trilogy of films, each starring Battles leading man Bunta Sugawara and telling separate, but fictional stories about the yakuza in different locations in Japan.

Specifications

• Video

  Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
  Video resolution: 1080p
  Aspect ratio: 2.45:1
  Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
  

• Audio

  Japanese: LPCM Mono
  

• Subtitles

  English
  

• Discs

  Blu-ray Disc
  Three-disc set (3 BDs)
  

• Playback

  Region A (B, C untested)

Review

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Trilogy Blu-ray Movie Review

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  New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Last Days of the Boss Blu-ray Movie  

  新仁義なき戦い 組長最後の日 / Shin jingi naki tatakai: Kumicho saigo no hi

  Arrow | 1976 | 91 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

  
  

  Sugawara plays Nozaki, a laborer who swears allegiance to a sympathetic crime boss, only to find himself elected his successor after the boss is murdered. Restrained by a gang alliance that forbids retributions against high-level members, Nozaki forms a plot to exact revenge on his rivals, but a suspicious relationship with his own sister taints his relationship with his fellow gang members.

  
  

  Action / Crime / Drama / Foreign / Period

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  New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss' Head Blu-ray Movie  

  新仁義なき戦い 組長の首 / Shin jingi naki tatakai: Kumicho no kubi / Blu-ray + DVD

  Arrow | 1975 | 94 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

  
  

  Sugawara is Kuroda, an itinerant gambler who steps in when a hit by drug-addicted assassin Kusunoki goes wrong, and takes the fall on behalf of the Owada family, but when the gang fails to make good on financial promises to him, Kuroda targets the family bosses with a ruthless vengeance.

  
  

  Action / Crime / Drama / Foreign / Period

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  New Battles Without Honor and Humanity Blu-ray Movie  

  新仁義なき戦い / Shin jingi naki tatakai

  Arrow | 1974 | 98 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

  
  

  Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.

  
  

  Action / Crime / Drama / Foreign / Period