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<font size="4"><br>Battles Without Honor & Humanity: The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 1</font>
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<br>DVD review by Derek Hill</font>
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<p>Kenji Fukasaku's <i>Battles Without Honor & Humanity</i>, the first in a series of five films chronicling the furious and bloody yakuza wars that lasted close to thirty years in Hiroshima and Kure, is the crowning achievement of the <i>jitsuroku rosen</i> (line of realism) style that transformed and boosted the genre to new creative heights until its demise in the mid-1970s.
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