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* TropeMaker: For ''jitsuroku-eiga'', a deconstructive sub-genre of yakuza films that were far more cynical than 1960s ''ninkyo'' films which were filled with far more idealistic tales about honor, brotherhood, tradition, and loyalty.
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* TropeMaker: For ''jitsuroku-eiga'', a deconstructive sub-genre SubGenre of yakuza films that were far more cynical than 1960s ''ninkyo'' films which were filled with far more idealistic tales about honor, brotherhood, tradition, and loyalty.
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: The first four movies are based on the memoirs of gangster Kozo Minou "Hiroshima Yakuza · Ryūketsu 20-nen no Kiroku: Jingi Naki Tatakai" (''The Hiroshima Yakuza: Record of 20 years of bloodshed: Battles without moral codes'') released in a Japanese newspaper, highly popular in their homeland for detailing the Yakuza underworld, including the first two [[MobWar Hiroshima Conflicts]] without any [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed censorship]].
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: The first four movies are based on the memoirs of gangster Kozo Minou entitled "Hiroshima Yakuza · Ryūketsu 20-nen no Kiroku: Jingi Naki Tatakai" (''The Hiroshima Yakuza: Record of 20 years of bloodshed: Battles without moral codes'') released in a Japanese newspaper, Without Honor and Humanity''). The book was originally serialized by the Weekly Sankei newspaper and were highly popular in their homeland for detailing the Yakuza underworld, including the first two [[MobWar Hiroshima Conflicts]] without any [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed censorship]].
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* HegemonicEmpire: While indeed causing much of the chaos and bloodshed of the third and fourth films, both the Akashi and Shinwa also try to make friendly ties with local gangs. This leads todivisions wit[[spoiler: hin the Kure/Hiroshima organizations.
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* HegemonicEmpire: While indeed causing much of the chaos and bloodshed of the third and fourth films, both the Akashi and Shinwa also try to make friendly ties with local gangs. This leads todivisions wit[[spoiler: hin to divisions within the Kure/Hiroshima organizations.
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* TransatlanticEquivalent: Of ''Film/TheGodfather.'' Both are movie franchises that tear apart their respective countries' gangs' idea of a code and are GenreDeconstruction of gangster movies.''Film/TheValachiPapers'' was also a strong influence, since both of them are film adaptions of non-fiction autobiographies of gangsters. Though coincidental, Roger Corman's 1967 ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_St._Valentine%27s_Day_Massacre_(film) St. Valentines' Day Massacre]]'' also shares plenty of similarities with the documentary-like style,
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* TransatlanticEquivalent: Of ''Film/TheGodfather.'' Both are movie franchises that tear apart their respective countries' gangs' idea of a code and are GenreDeconstruction of gangster movies.''Film/TheValachiPapers'' was also a strong influence, since both of them are film adaptions of non-fiction autobiographies of gangsters. Though coincidental, Roger Corman's 1967 ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_St._Valentine%27s_Day_Massacre_(film) St. Valentines' Day Massacre]]'' also shares plenty of similarities with the documentary-like style, style.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: The Akashi family and Shinwa Group serve as this in ''Proxy War'' and ''Police Tactics'', being Japan's biggest yakuza syndicates. Apparently the gang wars in Kure and Hiroshima are just more flashpoints in the two gangs' attempts to curb power for themselves across Japan.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: The Akashi family and Shinwa Group serve as this in ''Proxy War'' and ''Police Tactics'', being Japan's biggest yakuza syndicates. Apparently Apparently, the gang wars in Kure and Hiroshima are just more flashpoints in the two gangs' attempts to curb power for themselves across Japan.
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* HegemonicEmpire: While indeed causing much of the chaos and bloodshed of the third and fourth films, both the Akashi and Shinwa also try to make friendly ties with local gangs. This leads todivisions within the Kure/Hiroshima organizations.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Despite being an absolute piece of shit and the slimiest character of them all, Yamamori survives the whole series. The worst he gets is one-and-a-half year of jail time at the end of the fourth movie, and he gets out on bail.]]
** [[spoiler: His wife, who loves to smack him around, also gets away pretty cleanly despite being a victim of ChuckCunninghamSyndrome.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Despite being an absolute piece of shit and the slimiest character of them all, Yamamori survives the whole series. The worst he gets is one-and-a-half year of jail time at the end of the fourth movie, and he gets out on bail.]]
** [[spoiler: His wife, who loves to smack him around, also gets away pretty cleanly despite being a victim of ChuckCunninghamSyndrome.]]
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* HegemonicEmpire: While indeed causing much of the chaos and bloodshed of the third and fourth films, both the Akashi and Shinwa also try to make friendly ties with local gangs. This leads todivisions within wit[[spoiler: hin the Kure/Hiroshima organizations.
* KarmaHoudini:[[spoiler: Despite being an absolute piece of shit and the slimiest character of them all, Yamamori survives the whole series. The worst he gets is one-and-a-half year of jail time at the end of the fourth movie, and he gets out on bail.]]
**[[spoiler: His wife, who loves to smack him around, also gets away pretty cleanly despite being a victim of ChuckCunninghamSyndrome.]]
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* SeriesFauxnale: Fukasaku and Kasahara intended ''Police Tactics'' as this, which ended up wrapping Hirono's story by having him thrown in jail again while he rest of the Hiroshima yakuza form the Tensei Coalition.
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* SeriesFauxnale: Fukasaku and Kasahara intended ''Police Tactics'' as this, which ended up wrapping Hirono's story by having him thrown in jail again while he rest of the Hiroshima yakuza ''yakuza'' form the Tensei Coalition.
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* TransatlanticEquivalent: Of ''Film/TheGodfather.'' Both are movie franchises that tear apart their respective countries' gangs' idea of a code and are GenreDeconstruction of gangster movies.
** ''Film/TheValachiPapers'' was also a strong influence, since both of them are film adaptions of non-fiction autobiographies of gangsters.
** ''Film/TheValachiPapers'' was also a strong influence, since both of them are film adaptions of non-fiction autobiographies of gangsters.
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* TransatlanticEquivalent: Of ''Film/TheGodfather.'' Both are movie franchises that tear apart their respective countries' gangs' idea of a code and are GenreDeconstruction of gangster movies.
**movies.''Film/TheValachiPapers'' was also a strong influence, since both of them are film adaptions of non-fiction autobiographies of gangsters.gangsters. Though coincidental, Roger Corman's 1967 ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_St._Valentine%27s_Day_Massacre_(film) St. Valentines' Day Massacre]]'' also shares plenty of similarities with the documentary-like style,
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* ContinuityReboot: ''New Battles Without Honor and Humanity'' is a [[TheRemake remake]] of the first film that shares an almost exact plot. Averted with its sequels, which have [[InNameOnly completely invented plots]].
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: The first four movies are based on the memoirs of gangster Kozo Minou "Hiroshima Yakuza · Ryūketsu 20-nen no Kiroku: Jingi Naki Tatakai" (''The Hiroshima Yakuza: Record of 20 years of bloodshed: Battles without moral codes'') released in a Japanese newspaper, highly popular in their homeland for detailing the Yakuza underworld, including the first two [[MobWar Hiroshima Conflicts]] without any [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed censorship]].
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* SettingUpdate: ''Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Another Battle'' is a loose [[TheRemake reimagining]] of the first film in modern-day Osaka, instead of Hiroshima.
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** ''Film/TheValachiPapers'' was also a strong influence, since both of them are film adaptions of non-fiction autobiographies of gangsters.
