Final Episode

Original title: Jingi naki tatakai: Kanketsu-hen

19741974
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1h 40m

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While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

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Director
- Kinji Fukasaku
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- Koichi Iiboshi(story)
- Kôji Takada
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In one of the final scenes, several yakuza members approach a theatre playing Onna Toseinin, aka Okoma: The Orphan Gambler (1971) and ogle the poster featuring Sumiko Fuji as the latter movie's theme music plays. Onna Toseinin is a "ninkyo eiga" or "chivalry film" in which yakuza are portrayed in a romanticized way as honorable, upstanding citizens, or cool, wandering gamblers. This is certainly meant as a strong contrast to the "jitsuroku eiga" / "actual record film", or true crime style of this Battles Without Honour and Humanity series, in which modern yakuza are more accurately portrayed as brutally destructive, craven goons engaging in chaotic violence and murder. Ironically, Yumiko Nogawa who appears in this film as a yakuza wife, 12 years earlier appeared in an early ninkyo eiga series of her own as a similar wandering woman gambler character, Toba no mesu neko (1965).

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2/10

Final Episode

I would have said "awful" but the other films were so great! It was such a disappointment after watching the others. At the end of the film there were too many loose ends, so much left behind unresolved with no closure for the main character or more importantly, the viewer. At this point in the series, I was having problems as well with everyone's inability to hold a gun straight. And why were they always falling down on the people they shot?

All I can say is that if this is based on the memoirs of a Yakuza boss, and these films held true to story... only then can I accept this "real" ending. Otherwise what a let down. Maybe I'm just sad it's over.

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