New Battles without Honor & Humanity

In the early 1970s, Kinji Fukasaku's Battles Without Honor and Humanity series was a massive hit in Japan, and kicked off a boom in realistic, modern yakuza films. Although Fukasaku had intended to end the series, Toei Studio convinced him to return for this unconnected, follow-up trilogy of films telling separate, but fictional stories about the yakuza in different locations in Japan.