Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy WarCast and Crew

Movie

Crew

T
Toru Dobashi
Assistant Director
H
Haruo Nakayama
Lighting Design
K
Koichi Iiboshi
Story
K
Kozo Horiike
Editor
S
Sadaji Yoshida
Director of Photography
Y
Yoshimitsu Amamori
Art Direction
Y
Yoshio Shimizu
Set Decoration
K
Ken Toyonaka
Costume Design
G
Genbee Inada
Set Designer
I
Ikuo Miyoshi
Fight Choreographer

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.