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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head (Japanese: 新仁義なき戦い 組長の首, Hepburn: Shin Jingi Naki Tatakai: Kumicho no Kubi) is a 1975 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The film details the internal conflicts between members of the Owada family on the Kyushu side of the Kanmon Straits.
Dec 28, 1974 · New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Directed by Kinji Fukasaku. With Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Nobuo Kaneko, Tomisaburô Wakayama. Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit.
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- Action, Comedy, Crime
- Kinji Fukasaku
- 1974-12-28
Nov 1, 1975 · Sugawara is Kuroda, an itinerant gambler who steps in when a hit by drug-addicted assassin Kusunoki goes wrong, and takes the fall on behalf of the Owada family, but when the gang fails to make good on financial promises to him, Kuroda targets the family bosses with a ruthless vengeance.
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- Action, Drama, Comedy
- Kinji Fukasaku
- 1975-11-01
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Japanese: 新仁義なき戦い, Hepburn: Shin Jingi Naki Tatakai) is a 1974 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It begins a new series of films with unrelated plots, based on the director's earlier Battles Without Honor and Humanity pentalogy.
An itinerant gambler takes the fall for a yakuza hit man, serving seven years in prison. The yakuza fail to properly compensate him for his time served, forcing him...
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head is the second installment in the gritty crime series. Bunta Sugawara delivers a standout performance as Kuroda, a gambler who takes the fall for a botched hit on behalf of the Owada family.
An essential link within Fukasaku’s cinematic world, The Boss’s Head found him expanding his action vocabulary to include car stunts, as well as creating not one, but two meaty female roles (the other played by Yuriko Hishimi ).
