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Another Battle (2000)
Director: Junji Sakamoto
Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa, Tomoyasu Hotei, Show Aikawa, Ittoku Kishibe
Runtime109 min
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Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner with a distaste for crime gangs. When a yakuza boss dies, a struggle for his position takes place between Kaneo's boss Awano and the young Nakahira. Nakahira's men try to extort money from Masatatsu, bringing him in between a yakuza battle.
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Another Battle is a 2000 Japanese crime drama directed by Junji Sakamoto. While not as critically acclaimed as some of Sakamoto's other works, the film received generally positive reviews for its gritty depiction of the yakuza underworld and the complex relationships between its characters. There are no major awards or recognition reported for this film, though it maintains a respectable 6.5/10 rating on IMDb based on audience reviews.
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Fans of gritty yakuza dramas will appreciate the taut direction of Junji Sakamoto and the powerful performances of Etsushi Toyokawa and Tomoyasu Hotei in this 2000 action-crime film about former childhood friends caught in a deadly power struggle between rival gangs.
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity , 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 KÅichi Iiboshi, that were rewrites of a manuscript originally written by real-life yakuza KÅzÅ MinÅ while he was in prison.
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