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Ripper ...........: Team iMBT Video Codec ......: XviD
Release Date .....: 12/07/2004 Video Quality ....: ~887 kbps
Theater Date .....: 03/13/1975 Resolution .......: 640x272
DVD RLS Date .....: 22/26/2004 Audio Codec ......: MP3 MONO VBR
DVD Runtime ......: 99 mins Audio Bitrate ....: ~92 kbps
Aspect Ratio .....: 2.35:1 Subtitles ........: English/Chinese
Language .........: Japanese Files ............: 49x15MB
Film Genre .......: Drama
IMDb URL..........: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070246/
IMDB Rating ......: 7.2/10 (114 votes)
Summary
Directed by
Kinji Fukasaku
Plot
Based on a true story Battles Without Honor is a kick ass trip through
the rise of the yakuza in post war Japan. Beginning in 1945 and
traveling through the next 12 or so years this is the tale of a group
of friends who come together in order to survive the cruelties of
post-war, and post-bomb Japan and then spend the next decade killing
each other as they change sides in a perpetual gang war.
This film has just about everything. Moments of violence, hysterical
comedy (The finger), drama, and there is even hints of romance as a
moll tries to hide her beau. Its brutal and nasty and probably very
close to reality.
Some reviews paint this as having come in the wake of the Godfather,
but while that may have gotten the movie made, the tone is different.
There is no honor, there is no loyalty, there is only violence,
violence and more violence, usually ex-friend on ex-friend. Despite
there being "gangs" its really everyman for himself. American and
European films of the same period often painted things as much less
cut throat and that there really was familial loyalty, that idea is
somewhat alien here as people switched sides if it kept them alive.
This is a near perfect film in many ways. It picks you up from the
opening minutes and carries you along to the end. Its wonderfully of
a time and place and extremely well acted all around.
There are only two problems which are minor. First, I think the film
requires a bit more familiarity with what was going on in Japan post
war. While I have had some knowledge of that, I was a tad lost at the
start since I wasn't instantly aware of what I was seeing. The second
minor flaw is that its jump through time story telling can be a bit
disorienting. Its not that the plot threads are lost, its just that
it takes a minute to know who the older people are.
Over all a great film.
Cast Cast
Bunta Sugawara .... Shozo Hirono
Hiroki Matsukata .... Tetsuya Sakai
Tatsuo Umemiya .... Hiroshi Wakasugi
Tsunehiko Watase .... Toshio Arita
Nobuo Kaneko .... Yamamori
Ripper's Notes
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http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/pid-1003921670
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