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7.3(128)1h 39m• Crime, Action, Drama
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
Movie Saga1973 – 1974
The Yakuza Papers Collection
5 Films
7.2 Avg Rating
$2.1M Saga Box Office
5.35x Commercial Multiplier
While The Godfather romanticized the American Mafia in the early 1970s, Kinji Fukasaku's five-film series known as The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor & Humanity revolutionized the Japanese yakuza film with unprecedented intensity. A post-World War II epic that broke Japanese box-office records, this complex, utterly authentic cycle of gangster films replaced the popular ninkyo or "chivalry" films of the '60s with jitsuroku, an entirely new breed of gangster film that rose from the ashes of Hiroshima and post-war reconstruction, depicting a meticulously detailed "alternate history" that had been ignored by the "official" factual record.
Franchise Box Office Economics
Combined theatrical financials and commercial performance across all 5 installments.
Total Worldwide Gross
$2.1M
Cumulative box office receipts
Total Production Budget
$400K
Combined studio investments
Average Gross / Film
$428K
Average theatrical return
Commercial Multiple
5.35x
Worldwide Gross vs Budget
Films in Saga(5)
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7.3(75)1h 39m• Drama, Crime, Action
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
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7.0(60)1h 42m• Action, Drama, Crime
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.
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7.0(51)1h 41m• Crime, Drama, Action
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic Games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
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7.2(50)1h 40m• Action, Drama, Crime
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.