Proxy War
1973 · Movie · 102 min · ★ 7.0
A gangster breaks away from his old clan to build a smaller crew and widen his network. As new alliances form with powerful figures from rival groups, shifting loyalties and careful negotiations pull him deeper into a tense web of power plays and escalating conflict.
Also known as The Yakuza Papers: Proxy War · The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 3: Proxy War · Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Proxy War
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Details
- Original title
- 仁義なき戦い 代理戦争
- Years
- 1973
- Release date
- 1973-09-25
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 102 min
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 (55 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a slow-burn yakuza saga packed with shifting alliances, betrayals, and sudden violence, especially if you liked Graveyard of Honor; Not for you if you dislike dense, name-heavy plots and lots of negotiation scenes.
Pros: tense power struggles; strong performances; sharp, deliberate pacing | Cons: convoluted factions; less wild energy; lots of talk
Themes
- assassination
- hitman
- gangster
- yakuza
- gang war
- blackout
- hiroshima, japan
- betrayal
- power outage
- criminal underworld
- strategy
- diplomacy
- +5 more
Cast & crew
Bunta Sugawara
as Shozo Hirono
Takeshi Katō
as Noboru Uchimoto
Akira Kobayashi
as Akira Takeda
Mikio Narita
as Hiroshi Matsunaga
Kunie Tanaka
as Masakichi Makihara
Shingo Yamashiro
as Shoichi Eda
Nobuo Kaneko
as Yoshio Yamamori
Hideo Murota
as Hideo Hayakawa
Tatsuo Umemiya
as Shinichi Iwai
Asao Uchida
as Kenichi Okubo
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku