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title: 'Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Kinji Fukasaku'
released: '1973-09-25'
runtime_minutes: 119
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/battles-without-honor-and-humanity-proxy-war-1973'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070244/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973)

1973 · 119 min · Drama · Japan

Original title: 仁義なき戦い 代理戦争

## Synopsis

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War  is a 1973 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It is the third film in a five-part series that Fukasaku made in a span of just two years, focusing on the events prior to a major war between Hiroshima yakuza in the early 1960s.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Kinji Fukasaku](https://cinepixo.com/people/kinji-fukasaku)
- **Screenplay:** [Kazuo Kasahara](https://cinepixo.com/people/kazuo-kasahara)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Toshiaki Tsushima](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshiaki-tsushima)

## Cast

- [Takuzo Kawatani](https://cinepixo.com/people/takuzo-kawatani)
- [Akira Kobayashi](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kobayashi)
- [Bunta Sugawara](https://cinepixo.com/people/bunta-sugawara)
- [Hideo Murota](https://cinepixo.com/people/hideo-murota)
- [Tetsurō Tamba](https://cinepixo.com/people/tetsuro-tamba)
- [Shingo Yamashiro](https://cinepixo.com/people/shingo-yamashiro)
- [Reiko Ike](https://cinepixo.com/people/reiko-ike)
- [Tsunehiko Watase](https://cinepixo.com/people/tsunehiko-watase)
- [Mikio Narita](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikio-narita)
- [Kunie Tanaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/kunie-tanaka)
- [Nobuo Kaneko](https://cinepixo.com/people/nobuo-kaneko)
- [Takeshi Katō](https://cinepixo.com/people/takeshi-kato)

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