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''Battles Without Honor and Humanity'' (''Jingi Naki Tatakai'', 仁義なき戦い) is a groundbreaking 1973 Yakuza film by Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku . It is the first film in a five-part series that is known as '''''The Yakuza Papers'''''. The violent, documentary-style film chronicles the underworld tribulations of Shozo Hirono ( Bunta Sugawara ), a young ex-soldier and street thug in post-War Hiroshima . Starting in the open-air black markets of bombed-out Hiroshima in 1945, the film spans a period of more than 10 years. It gave way to four sequels, which form a sprawling yakuza epic. It is often called "the Japanese '' Godfather ''". The title refers to the post-war Yakuza 's lack of Jingi , a Japanese term loosely translated as "honor and humanity". Previous yakuza movies had, for the most part, been tales of chivalry set in pre-war Japan. A commercial and critical success, ''Battles Without Honor and Humanity'' changed that, and Japanese Cinema , forever. SEQUELS The film's success quickly spawned four sequels:
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