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	Teleport City
		In such an atmosphere, honor and humanity was a distant consideration to simply staking out a claim, and if the myth of the yakuza code had ever been real, it was certainly killed in the atomic blasts.
		Battles Without Honor and Humanity was based on a book by journalist Koichi Iiboshi chronicling the history of the real life Mino gang.
		Battles Without Honor and Humanity is a demanding film, especially for audiences who don't speak Japanese or aren't familiar with the intricacies of the yakuza genre.
	www.teleport-city.com /movies/reviews/a-b/battles_without_honor.html (3536 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Fukasaku is better known in the States for his early sci-fi flick The Green Slime (1968) and the more recent shock epic Battle Royale, but The Yakuza Papers (as the entire series is known) has been given its due with a prestigious DVD set release from Home Vision Entertainment.
		It’s a testament to the man’s skill that Battles Without Honor and Humanity is a compelling viewing experience despite its lack of most of the traditional elements of strong narrative.
		The rest of the cast is excellent, particularly in the case of the cowardly and conniving Yamamori, but it's not hard to see why Sagawara was picked to play the character around whom the film (and later, the entire series of movies) revolves.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/b/battles-without-honor.html (992 words)

	The Yakuza Papers Vol. 1: Battles Without Honor & Humanity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Battles Without Honor and Humanity kicks off the series with a concussive bang as the story of emerging gangsters in post-World War II Hiroshima unfolds in a stylized eruption of gunfire and violence that paints the streets in blood.
		It is his sense of honor that sets him apart and ultimately sets the stage for him to become a yakuza boss himself.
		Battles Without Honor and Humanity is an extremely violent film throughout that doesn't get any more extreme than when two thugs have their arms graphically chopped off.
	www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/y/yakuzapapers1.htm (554 words)

	The Yakuza Papers Battles Without Honor Humanity Complete Box Set (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Beginning with 1973's Battles Without Honor and Humanity and continuing through four hugely popular sequels, these are bracingly intricate studies in shifting loyalties and gangland chaos, tracking the yakuza career of Shozu Hirono (played by charismatic star Bunta Suguwara), who rises from lowly soldier status in 1946 to "sworn brotherhood" and respected retirement in 1970.
		The films were revolutionary because they were some of the first to depict the yakuza lifestyle as one without honor, as the title reveals.
		For people only familiar with his controversial swan song, Battle Royale, The Yakuza Papers is an exciting, crime epic influenced by the dropping of two atomic bombs that helped defeat Japan, bring about an end to World War II and shape the prevailing attitude of its people for years to come.
	www.hallfictionbooks.com /store/dvd_B0002V7O1A_The-Yakuza-Papers---Battles-Without-Honor-Humanity-Complete-Box-Set.html (1348 words)

	The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 1 - Battles Without Honor and Humanity @ Filmbug
		A rare and critical perspective on the history of Japan after World War II, BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY is a tour-de-force that revolutionized the yakuza genre and launched Kinji Fukasaku and Bunta Sugawara to international stardom.
		There are few films as well-named as Fukasaku Kinji's "Battles Without Honor and Humanity" ("Jingi naki tatakai.') With one shot, Fukasaku (director of "Battle Royale") undid and entire genre of film, one that would never be the same again.
		Fukasaku, with deep anti-violence sentiments, directed "Battles Without Honor and Humanity" in an attempt to set the record straight, to re-write the post-War history of Japan and unveil the true nature of these violent thugs, more interested in money than honor.
	www.filmbug.com /asin/B0002V7O1K (558 words)

	Movie Review - Battles Without Honor and Humanity - Hollywood Bitchslap
		“Battles” is the opening chapter in Kinji Fukasaku’s epic series, which dropped all five films onto audiences in just two years, 1973 and 1974.
		Although “Battles” is the first chapter in an on-going series, the film manages to wrap itself up nicely enough to work as a stand alone movie, too.
		(Granted, it was made without the thought of sequels, but keeping the sequels in mind makes it hard to see this entirely as a separate entity.) Things end with just the right wickedness that it fits with the tone of the film; this is the right ending at the right moment.
	www.hollywoodbitchslap.com /review.php?movie=10920&reviewer=392 (1033 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Battles Without Honor and Humanity
		But Battles without Honor and Humanity moves along at such a brisk pace, and chronicles so many schemes, conflicts, and betrayals, that a proper synopsis would stretch to pages.
		Battles without Honor and Humanity, like the rest of The Yakuza Papers cycle, makes the claim that it's part social comment: this, it says, is what Japan devolved into following its murderous introduction to the atomic age, and that's why these films had to be made.
		Battles without Honor and Humanity is newly available on DVD in a single volume or as part of a boxed set including a disc of bonus material.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /click/author-9254/reviews.php?rid=1377816&cats=1%2C+2%2C+3%2C+4%2C+5%2C+7%2C+8%2C+29%2C+12%2C+13%2C+14%2C+16%2C+17%2C+18%2C+19%2C+20%2C+21%2C+22%2C+24%2C+23%2C+26%2C+27&genreid=&switches=&letter=&sortby=&page=6 (591 words)

	Teleport City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		In fact, since the entire Battles without Honor and Humanity series concerns the same group of people and was directed by Fukasaku over a period of just a couple years, they play less like separate movies and more like one long, bloody saga.
		Even Shoji's battle for the love of a good woman is presented with unflinching brutality and nary a moment during which you can relax and say, well, for this one time, he's having a golden moment.
		Until that happens, however (which doesn't take long), Battles Without Honor and Humanity II is a worthy and enjoyable follow-up to the first film.
	www.teleport-city.com /movies/reviews/a-b/battles_without_honor2.html (1642 words)

	ciff2004b (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Recently known to American audiences for the recent action horror hit Battle Royale, the late Kinji Fukasaku is better known and appreciated in his country of origin for his contributions to and re-envisioning of the Japanese gangster genre also known as Yakuza films.
		Released within a year of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), the film Battles Without Humanity and Honor (1973), not only offers equally complex plotting and Fukasaku's trademark dynamic use of camera, but a historically significant vision of a post war Japan struggling to emerge from Emperor worship and totalitarian rule into democracy.
		They tell their timeless stories again and again to a world in need of reminders that words like honor and humanity have not ceased to have meaning no matter how bad an example has been set by man. This is neither Asian, nor American but human in the truest sense.
	www.imaginedat.net /ciff2004b.htm (649 words)

	DVD Savant Review: The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor And Humanity (The Complete Box Set)
		The advice I was given before seeing Battles Without Honor and Humanity was, "Prepare to roll with the punches." That wasn't enough preparation for Kinji Fukasaku's five-film Yakuza epic, known collectively as The Yakuza Papers.
		I was already a bit wary of Fukasaku, having been less than thrilled by his later Graveyard of Honor; it was supposed to be a culmination of the director's nihilistic style.
		The clans are organized along business lines and are supposed to function under a code of honor in which underlings make blood oaths to their superiors and remain loyal unto death.
	www.dvdsavant.com /s1442batt.html (1638 words)

	Jonathon Delacour: My DVD of the year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Battles without Honour and Humanity (仁義なき戦い, Jingi naki tatakai, 1973)
		Battles without Honour and Humanity (仁義なき戦い, Jingi naki takakai, 1973)
		The Battles without Honor and Humanity series is proving easier to understand since Home Vision Entertainment have included a character tree—a small section of which is shown below—that shows the myriad characters and their relationships.
	weblog.delacour.net /archives/2004/12/my_dvd_of_the_year.php (673 words)

	info - battle without honor or humanity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
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		Weblog Without Honor or Humanity by Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
		Battles Without Honor and Humanity Format: 6DVD Box Label: Home Vision Limited edition metal box housing all five volumes of Kinji Fukasaku?s (Battle Royale) The...
	www.ny-photo.de /battle_without_honor_or_humanity.html (345 words)

	Batoru rowaiaru (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The instruction video that is shown to the `contestants' features a young and beautiful girl who, wearing a similar necklace as the contestants, instructs with an overly cheery fashion the rules and layout of Battle Royale, while at the same time their former teacher taunts them sadistically.
		Also a certain subconscious like text appears to the characters in times of need, this can be interpreted as the directors way of showing last thoughts that go through a dying contestants head before they finally die or the despair or motive of a contestant.
		He directed over 60 movies in his lifetime of which Battle Royale was the last one, and while some have proposed that he had lost his touch over the years, BR proves otherwise.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0266308 (948 words)

	The Yakuza Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		In the first film Battles without Honor and Humanity, Hirono meets Wagasugi (Tatsuo Umemiya) while he is serving in prison for killing a man. The two become blood brothers which lead to Hirono’s introduction into the world of the yakuza.
		Battles erupt as gangs as territories are fought for and Hirono quickly learns that betrayal and murder like loyalty are part of the yakuza code.
		The yakuza and mobster are distant cousins that outside their language barriers they follow similar codes and are bound by a sense of honor to their boss.
	www.10kbullets.com /reviews/yakuzapapers.htm (1337 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Yakuza Papers:Battles Without Honor and Humanity
		Yakuza Papers, Volume 1: Battles Without Honor and Humanity is the first installment in Fukasaku's epic five film depiction of a bloody yakuza war in Hiroshima.
		Shozo finds himself caught up in the deadly battle waging between his gang and its rivals, who are all vying for power on the streets.
		Betrayal, murder and duplicity are all the order of the day, as Shozo fights to stay alive in a ruthless world without honor or humanity.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=12884 (710 words)

	Rome Roma Roman Ancient Civilization
		Romans honored the protective spirits of the household, "Lares", and the spirits of the pantry, "Penates" by throwing some of the food from every meal into the air as an offering.
		Families without a son usually adopted one, preferably a nephew, to preserve the lineage.
		As a Stoic, Seneca espoused modesty and universal humanity in an age of pretentiousness and slavery.
	www.blessingscornucopia.com /Rome_Roma_Roman_Ancient_Civilization.htm (4786 words)

	Midnight Eye review: Fall Guy ('Kamata Koshin-Kyoku', 1982, Kinji FUKASAKU)
		Like the director's masterpiece, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Fall Guy exposes the injustices visited on honest, hard-working men serving corrupt and undeserving bosses; all he has done is change the setting.
		Although Fall Guy may be a leap for American audiences that know Fukasaku from the bloody fireworks of Battle Royale, his message - that a climate of violence and repression breeds only more violence - remains relevant in any part of the world, for any generation.
		Before he made Battles Without Honor and Humanity, the studios churned out ninkyo films (a term that refers to yakuza films that emphasized the honorable disposition of their heroes) with stars like Koji Tsuruta and Ken Takakura.
	www.midnighteye.com /reviews/fallguy.shtml (764 words)

	Boxoffice Magazine [The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Six-Disc Box)]
		Several Fukasaku films have been available for a time on DVD, but none of them are as instrumental or key to the late director's oeuvre as his five-film saga, "The Yakuza Papers," made in 1973 and 1974 and now available as a six-disc boxed set from Home Vision.
		Each of the films can be had separately -- "Battles Without Honor & Humanity," "Deadly Fight in Hiroshima," "Proxy War," "Police Tactics" and "Final Episode" -- but with the boxed set, which features a six-disc folding wallet inside an attractive (but too-easily scratched) matte-fl painted tin sleeve, one gets the essential extras disc.
		Spanning some thirty years, it's an epic saga centered mainly on a war veteran who becomes embroiled in the endless feuds, treacherous double-crosses and random killings that are simply a way of life for the Yakuza.
	www.boxoffice.com /scripts/dvd.asp?where=ID&terms=6238 (577 words)

	Movie Review - Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Action - Hollywood Bitchslap
		The third chapter in Kinji Fukasaku’s “Yakuza Papers” saga is the one with “war” right in the title, but it’s part four, “Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics,” that really shows the battles brewing.
		This is perhaps the most violent of the bunch, with the graphic nature of the gang warfare shown in its rawest form.
		Yamamori, on the other hand, is stuck dealing with a growing army, supplied by supportive crime families, which has swarmed upon Hiroshima and is racking up enormous hosting expenses for the Yamamori family - it seems all this support, without a battle to fight, leaves the men with nothing to do but spend Yamamori’s money.
	www.hollywoodbitchslap.com /review.php?movie=11905&reviewer=392 (1239 words)

	10kbullets.com: Comparison Review - Battle Without Honor and Humanity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Unlike their previous Kinji Fukasaku releases that had been plagued with all sorts of problems Eureka’s Battle without Honor and Humanity looks pretty good.
		Trailers for the Yakuza Papers (Volumes 1-5), Graveyard of Honor, Street Mobster, director filmography and a booklet called the Family Tree that is a comprehensive story guide that helps sort out the Yakuza Papers series complicated plot.
		Even though Eureka finally delivers with one of their better transfer’s to date for a Kinji Fukasaku film they still fall short in terms of quality when compared to Home Visions Battle without Honor and Humanity release which offers a superior transfer and slightly more extras.
	www.10kbullets.com /reviews/Battlewithouthumanitycomparison.htm (480 words)

	village voice > film > "Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Films of Kinji Fukasaku" at BAMcinématek and the ...
		Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973, to be introduced by Quentin Tarantino at the Screening Room July 6) is an emblematic film—a convoluted, overpopulated diagram of escalating gang warfare in which fights seem to break out at two-minute intervals.
		The Battles movies lead, with cruelly impeccable logic, to Graveyard of Honor and Humanity (1975), a headlong plunge into the abyss.
		Fukasaku's biggest international cult success, Black Lizard (1968), is one of his least characteristic works—revolving around a fever-dream danse macabre between a jewel thief (transgendered singer-actor Akihiro Maruyama) and a pensive detective, who carry out their cat-and-mouse flirtation in a series of solemn, swooningly florid bons mots.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0127/lim.shtml (814 words)

	yakuzapapers_review
		So, I was certainly no expert in this area, nor I’m I now, but at least after viewing the BATTLE WITHOUT HONOR OR HUMANITY films, I have a hugely better handle on what to look for in the future.
		Though finding a Yakuza film maybe easier now, the same would not be in the case of finding one that is true to the historical ties that Kinji Fukasaku laid down in the YAKUZA PAPERS series of films.
		With the beginning of the series of films, BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY begins with post-war Hiroshima and it’s emerging Black Markets and slums which dominated much of Japan during the American occupation.
	www.cinema-nocturna.com /yakuzapapers_review.htm (1507 words)

	village voice > film > by Chuck Stephens
		And though he tooled his movies for mainstream success, Fukasaku's jet-fl satire was every bit as deadly as his art-film contemporary, Nagisa Oshima; the contempt both men held for post-war Japan seemed dark enough to bury the rising sun.
		American audiences never cultivated much awareness of Fukasaku as an auteur prior to the recent revival of his 1960s and '70s yakuza masterworks at festivals and cinematheques, yet he's been hovering around the fringes of our cinematic subconscious for decades.
		Myriad lesser-known yakuza flicks routinely ape the great one's accomplishments as well, but—in a stroke of inadvertent Zen negation—Fukasaku's greatest contribution to the younger generation was probably the film he decided not to direct, Violent Cop, thereby allowing his fill-in, Takeshi Kitano, to light off the first firework of his directing career.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0303,stephens,41184,20.html (420 words)

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	Final Episode \| The A.V. Club
		In 1973 and '74, Fukasaku made a five-film series known alternately as The Yakuza Papers and Battles Without Honor and Humanity (after the title of the first installment), tracing the complicated infighting of Hiroshima gangs from 1946 to 1970.
		In Fukasaku's world, yakuza adhere to codes of honor when it's in their best interest, but otherwise bully and kill indiscriminately.
		Fukasaku begins Battles with a still picture of an atomic blast, establishing the series as a critique of the "in-the-ruins generation" that was born in the rubble of World War II.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/8733 (486 words)

	Willamette Week Online \| Screen \| VIDEO, TV & DVD REVIEWS \| Kinji Fukasaku's The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without ...
		Where yakuza films once portrayed gangsters as honorable antiheroes, Fukasaku painted portraits of ruthless killers, sniveling cowards and double-crossing scumbags who obeyed no real code of honor.
		Released for the first time in the United States as a special five-volume, six-disc box set, The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor and Humanity will finally establish Fukasaku as one of the greatest directors of all time, and his series as one of the best gangster epics ever filmed, surpassing even The Godfather.
		Shozo is caught up in the deadly battle between his gang and its rivals, who are vying for power on the streets.
	www.wweek.com /story.php?story=5836 (541 words)

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