New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (2000 film)

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Directed byJunji Sakamoto
Written byKōji Takada
Kōichi Iiboshi (story)
Produced byYukiko Shii
Izumi Toyoshima
Toshio Zushi
StarringEtsushi Toyokawa
Tomoyasu Hotei
Shō Aikawa
Ittoku Kishibe
Kōichi Satō
CinematographyNorimichi Kasamatsu
Edited byTakeo Araki
Music byTomoyasu Hotei
Distributed byToei
Release date
  • November 25, 2000 (2000-11-25)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Japanese: 新・仁義なき戦い。, Hepburn: Shin Jingi Naki Tatakai.), also known as Another Battle, is a 2000 Japanese yakuza film directed by Junji Sakamoto. It is a remake of Kinji Fukasaku's Battles Without Honor and Humanity series from the 1970s, which were adapted from a series of newspaper articles by journalist Kōichi Iiboshi,[1] that were rewrites of a manuscript originally written by real-life yakuza Kōzō Minō while he was in prison.

Rock musician Tomoyasu Hotei, who plays Tochino Masatatsu, wrote the soundtrack to the film. Its title piece would be reworked and retitled "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" and go on to become a hit both in Japan and internationally. The film was followed by New Battles Without Honor and Humanity/Murder, or Another Battle/Conspiracy, directed by Hajime Hashimoto [ja] in 2003.

  1. ^ D., Chris (2005). Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film. I.B. Tauris. pp. 9–10, 23. ISBN 1-84511-086-2. Archived from the original on 2008-01-19.