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I recently got my hands on the Battles Without Honor and Humanity box set from arrow. Great set, and a great series. The second movie, Hiroshima Death Match is my favorite of the lot even if it is more loosely connected to the other films than any other. IT's the story of an unhinged young punk (Kin'ya Kitaōji) with a vendetta against an ambitious small time gangster (Sonny Chiba) taken up by the Yakuza and then chewed up and spit out. While the other BWH&H movies are still great, they are pretty chaotic with the time jumps and shifting allegiances. I think this is why I like Hiroshima Death Match the most, it has a core conflict that drives everything that happens in the movie and the chaos just happens around it. The boxset also came with a nice book that gives a primer on the history of Yakuza films that has got me looking for all sorts of movies to check out.
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