Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Hiroshima Deathmatch
Encyclopedia
is part two of a series of yakuza film
s directed by Kinji Fukasaku
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Yakuza film
is a popular film genre in Japanese cinema which focuses on the lives and dealings of yakuza, also referred to as the Japanese Mafia.-Ninkyo eiga:...
s directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Kinji Fukasaku
was a Japanese film actor, screenwriter, and best known as a celebrated and innovative filmmaker. He was born in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, and died in Tokyo, from prostate cancer...
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Cast
- Sonny ChibaSonny Chiba, also known as Sonny Chiba, is a Japanese actor, singer, film producer, film director and martial artist.Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later before an international audience.- Early life :Born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka,...
as Katsutoshi Otomo - Kinya Kitaoji as Shoji Yamanaka
- Meiko Kaji as Yasuko
- Toshie Kimura as Mrs. Yamamori
- Asao Koike
- Mikio Narita
- Hiroshi Nawa as Muraoka
- Bunta Sugawara as Shozo Hirono
- Nobuo Yana as Takuya Asano
- Seizo FukumotoSeizo Fukumotois a Japanese actor.Born February 3, 1943, he entered acting at age 15 in Kyoto, the capital of Japanese cinema. A specialist in film and television jidaigeki set in the Edo period, he most often plays a ronin, but in his hundreds of appearances he has taken nearly every role. His forte is...
as Otomo-gumi Member
Other credits
- Writing:
- Kōichi IiboshiKōichi Iiboshiwas a famous Japanese journalist and writer for Yomiuri Shinbun.-Career:Iiboshi was an alumnus of Kyoto University. He was the vice copy chief of the social news division of the national Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun....
: story - Kazuo Kasahara: screenplay
- Kōichi Iiboshi
- Production design: Akira Yoshimura
External links
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Hiroshima Deathmatch at the Japanese Movie DatabaseJapanese Movie DatabaseThe , commonly referred to as JMDB, is an online database of information about Japanese movies, actors, and production crew personnel. It is similar to the Internet Movie Database, but lists only those films originally released in Japan. The site was started in 1997, and contains movies from Meiji...