Movies Like Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974)

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode is a 1974 action, crime, drama film from Kinji Fukasaku with a MovieMagicScore of 7.3/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Battles Without Honor and Humanity and Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima.

Action Crime Drama

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

7.3

MagicScore

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

1973

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.

7.3

MagicScore

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

1973

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.

7.2

MagicScore

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

1974

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.

7.0

MagicScore

In This Corner of the World

2016

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…

7.9

MagicScore

The Blood of Wolves

2018

Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.

7.2

MagicScore

The Yakuza

1974

When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.

7.1

MagicScore

Crows Zero

2007

The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself do it as he reminds him of his youth.

7.1

MagicScore

The Street Fighter

1974

Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.

6.8

MagicScore

#10

Cry of a Prostitute

1974

The gangster Tony Aniante in the middle of a feud between two mafia families. He manipulates both families into believing he is on their side and are just waiting for the right moment to take the initiative...

5.5

MagicScore

#11

The Racket

1951

The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.

6.3

MagicScore

#12

Graveyard of Honor

1975

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.

6.6

MagicScore

#13

City Hall

1996

The accidental shooting of a boy in New York City leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.

5.9

MagicScore

#14

Street Mobster

1972

After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.

6.8

MagicScore

#15

GoodFellas

1990

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

8.5

MagicScore

#16

A Prophet

2009

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

7.6

MagicScore

#17

The Dead Pool

1988

Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of actors and musicians. By the time Harry learns that the murders are a part of a sick game to predict the deaths of celebrities before they happen, it may be too late...

6.3

MagicScore

#18

Dolls

2002

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.

7.6

MagicScore

#19

The Cotton Club

1984

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

6.5

MagicScore

#20

Rulers of the City

1976

Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of beating up borrowers who fall behind in their payments. After meeting up with Napoli, another mob enforcer who's just been fired from his job, the two hatch a plan. Together, they will con mob boss Manzari out of a fortune, after which they can retire and live in luxury. Manzari, however, is not about to let them go so easily.

6.3

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode?

The top films similar to Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode by MovieMagicScore are Battles Without Honor and Humanity (7.3), Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (7.3), Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (7.2). Each shares action/crime/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode worth watching?

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.3/10 from 41 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode?

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974) is a action, crime, drama film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, starring Bunta Sugawara, Joe Shishido, Nobuo Yana.

Where can I find more recommendations like Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode?

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About movies like Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

This ranked list pairs Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974), a action and crime and drama film from Kinji Fukasaku, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Bunta Sugawara take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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