# New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 (1974)

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**Original title**: *新仁義なき戦い*
**Runtime**: 98 min
**Genres**: Drama, Crime, Action
**Directed by**: Kinji Fukasaku
**Written by**: Misao Arai, Fumio Kōnami, Koichi Iiboshi
**Starring**: Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Nobuo Kaneko, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Tsunehiko Watase, Kunie Tanaka

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You start in a prison cell as a disposable killer and suddenly the gang war erupts outside. Between the two warring bosses you’re just another piece to discard. Fukasaku frames this early yakuza flick as a prison boxing ring where every punch lands like a debt notice.

**Mood tags**: raw, unhinged

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