Battles Without Honor and Humanity

In the black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) and his friends are drawn into a fight between rival yakuza factions, each run by men with ambitions of their own. Kinji Fukasaku adapts a real yakuza's manuscript, and Tetsuya Sakai (Hiroki Matsukata) and Toshio Arita (Tsunehiko Watase) are among the men crowded around Hirono. Every alliance Hirono makes is also a debt, and he can't tell which ones will be called in.