If you loved Sympathy for the Underdog, try Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
What they share
Both films are directed by Kinji Fukasaku, and they both carry the raw mood tag, and they sit in Action / Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Sympathy for the Underdog, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War is
You're adrift in postwar Hiroshima, forming alliances. But old loyalties clash with new connections. The local yakuza war escalates. Fukasaku contrasts the characters' honorable aspirations with their dishonorable deeds. The film leaves you with a sense of moral ambiguity.