Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hit man and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo (Sonny Chiba) draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono into a new round of bloodshed, culminating with the tragic demise of the young Yamanaka.
In Hiroshima Death Match (a.k.a. Deadly Fight in Hiroshima), director Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale) basically lets groups of Yakuza use Hiroshima as their own personal playground. It's works as a follow-up to one of the biggest Yakuza films in history; Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973). Loud crime thugs constantly fight it out and there's a ton of yakuza brawls taking place every 15 minutes.
Fukasaku juggles many characters at the same time, and it's like we have a whole family tree of gangsters taking each other out. Director Takeshi Kitano is also a huge player when it comes to Yakuza cinema so if you plow through both of his and Fukasaku's films dealing with gangsters, a giant carp tattoo will probably appear all across your back.
Genre: Action/Crime/Drama
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