Battles Without Honour and Humanity 5: Final Episode (1974)

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Jingi naki tatakai: Kanketsu-hen

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The conclusion of Kinji Fukusaku's yakuza epic (Battles Without Honour and Humanity, Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Proxy War, Police Tactics, Final Episode) wraps up Hirono's career and sees, for a time, the end of the war. But, of course, a new generation has appeared to continue the fight...

I wish I could say that the series was a Japanese The Wire, a multi-faceted exposé of institutional corruption and the cultural underpinnings of organized crime, but it's more like Underbelly: violence and revenge and violence, a chronology of deaths.

Interesting; hardly great.

- Sam - 2010-01-31 00:31:56