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is a 1973 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It is the second film in a five-part series that Fukasaku made in a span of just two years. It is the only movie in the series not to focus on Bunta Sugawara's character Shozo Hirono, instead it follows the rise and fall of Shoji Yamanaka played by Kinya Kitaoji. ==Plot== In 1950 Hiroshima City, Shoji Yamanaka is involved in a fight over cheating in a card game and stabs several men. He is sentenced to two years in prison, where he befriends Shozo Hirono. When he is released from prison, the waitress at a restaurant offers to let him eat for free but a gang led by Katsutoshi Otomo, the rebellious son of Choji Otomo, beat him. He is saved by Otomo senior and is offered to join the yakuza by Muraoka, the waitress Yasuko's uncle. Yamanaka serves under Muraoka's sworn brother Kunimatsu Takanashi, until he is chased out of Hiroshima by Muraoka for beginning a romantic relationship with the widowed Yasuko. Yamanaka redeems himself a year later by performing an assassination for the yakuza family he was staying with, and Muraoka welcomes him back as a formal member in a ceremony witnessed by Kanichi Tokimori. Katsutoshi Otomo is kicked out of his family by his father for causing problems with Muraoka and aligns himself with Tokimori, however, Tokimori is then banned from working in Hiroshima. Tokimori flees to Kure, while Katsutoshi attacks the Muraoka office starting a war. In Kure, Hirono's former boss Yamamori pays Hirono and his small family to protect Tokimori while he works to resolve the dispute. However, when Yamanaka shows up in Kure, Hirono decides to sacrifice Tokimori to prevent further bloodshed. Muraoka settles with the Otomo family, on the grounds that Katsutoshi disband his family. Muraoka also gives his blessing for Yamanaka to pursue Yasuko, but soon after calls on him to kill three of Katsutoshi's men who planned to take over the Otomo family and continue war against him. Yamanaka is arrested for the murders and sentenced to life in prison. Takanashi informs Yamanaka that Muraoka is forcing Yasuko to marry her dead husband's brother, and Yamanaka subsequently escapes from prison. Muraoka makes it seem as if Takanashi was lying and Yamanaka asks to allow him to kill Katsutoshi. While he only succeeds in injuring him, Katsutoshi is arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. Muraoka then has Yamanaka kill Takanashi under the guise that he lied to Yamanaka about Yasuko. After finding out that Muraoka was the one lying, Yamanaka is cornered by police and shoots himself. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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