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Jitsuroku is usually translated as “true story,” which in the yakuza movies of the seventies meant not so much historical accuracy as it did fights and blood of a new kind. The most famous of the jitsuroku yakuza movies are Kinji Fukasaku’s 5-part Battles Without Honor or Humanity, whose title neatly summarizes the change. The sixties yakuza movie had shown plenty of fights and, as effects gradually improved, increasing gore and blood spatters, but the core of the story was almost always a point of honor within the Yakuza Code and a hero with a sense of human feeling and responsibility. In the seventies, The Code disappeared along with the humane hero and we were offered only the battles and the blood.Read More »