The Battles Without Honor and Humanity series continues. DVD Year 1973 Studio Music Video Distributors Genre Action MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 98 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis The celebrated Battles Without Honor and Humanity series continues with its second episode, Hiroshima Death Match, setting aside part one protagonist Shozo Hirono Bunta Sugawara to follow a side story showcasing genre icons Sonny Chiba The Street Fighter and Meiko Kaji Female Convict 701 Scorpion . Hiroshima, 1950. Demobilized kamikaze pilot Shoji Yamanaka Kinya Kitaoji is released from prison and finds himself hungry and broke. Following a bust up with a local gang, he earns the psychotic wrath of local underboss Otomo Chiba , but Yamanaka's suicidal impulses are soon put to good use as a hitman for another gang, befriending series hero Shozo Hirono in the process. Despite a budding but forbidden romance with the boss's niece Kaji , Yamanaka's instability and recklessness soon begin to make him a dangerous liability. Taking an even more fatalistic turn than the series' original entry, Hiroshima Death Match tells the story of the ultimate loser, based on a true story uncovered by screenwriter Kazuo Kasahara while interviewing real-life Hiroshima yakuza for part one. A prosperous era may be dawning for the protagonists, but one with new characters and new grudges to draw them more deeply into its world of blood and betrayal. Director Kinji Fukasaku Cast Kinji Fukasaku; Bunta Sugawara; Shin'ichi Chiba; Meiko Kaji