New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss (1975)

新仁義なき戦い 組長の首

The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are battling for territorial rights and drug smuggling. The Owada sends their man, Tetsu, and his friend Shuji to kill the Kyoei boss. With the promise of fame and riches, Shuji takes the fall and goes to jail for 7 years. But when he's released, he discovers that he and Tetsu have been all but forgotten by the Owada. Feeling betrayed, Shuji takes matters into his own hands and becomes an unsuspecting pawn in an internal conflict and an assassination attempt on the Owada boss. And now angered, Shuji seeks revenge...

Date of release
1975-11-01
TMDB
7.4 / 10 (20)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Action, Crime, Drama
Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Collection
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head is a 1975 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The film details the internal conflicts between members of the Owada family on the Kyushu side of the Kanmon Straits. It is the unrelated sequel to New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974) and was followed by the third and final unrelated film in the series, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Last Days of the Boss (1976).

Production

With the success of New Battles Without Honor and Humanity, another installment was created. Fukasaku biographer and film expert Sadao Yamane feels that unlike that film, The Boss's Head features no relation to the original five-part series, but tells an original story set in a different period.

Takada said that Fukasaku was unsatisfied with the first installment in the new series, and that screenwriters Susumu Saji and Yozo Tanaka could not deliver what he wanted for its sequel. He said he was brought in to work on the script at producer Goro Kusakabe's suggestion when Fukasaku was at his wit's end with Saji and Tanaka, who had given up and were relaxing, playing mahjong, and drinking.

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