is a 1979 Japanese film directed by

Eiichi Kudo was a Japanese film director. Kudo directed 30 films between 1956 and 1998, the most notable being '' 13 Assassins'' (1963) and '' The Great Killing'' (1964). He joined the Toei film company in 1952 and made his film director debut with ''Fuka ...

. Although originally planned as the first entry of a new series in the ''

Battles Without Honor and Humanity , also known in the West as ''The Yakuza Papers'', is a Japanese yakuza film series produced by Toei Company. Inspired by a series of magazine articles by journalist Kōichi Iiboshi that are based on memoirs originally written by real-life ya ...

'' franchise, ''Aftermath'' turned out to be a lone entry and Toei refers to the film as an of the series.

Cast

* Jinpachi Nezu as Toshio Aiba *

Mieko Harada is a Japanese actress. She has played various roles in many films and Japanese television drama series since 1974. Career Harada most notably portrayed Lady Kaede in Akira Kurosawa's 1985 film '' Ran'', and further collaborated with him in h ...

as Akiko Negishi *

Ryudo Uzaki is a Japanese musician, composer, and actor. His group, the Down Town Boogie-Woogie Band, was one of the most prominent 1970s Japanese rock bands. He also composed many of Momoe Yamaguchi's songs with Yoko Aki. Uzaki has also worked as a film co ...

Shigeru Matsuzaki , known professionally as is a Japanese singer and actor. He is most known in the West for his contributions to the Katamari Damacy soundtracks, performing the theme songs of ''Nerima Daikon Brothers'' and acting as its lead character, and playing ...

as Keiichi Mizunuma *

Tsutomu Yamazaki is a Japanese actor. He won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor in 1984 for '' The Funeral'' and '' Farewell to the Ark''. Yamazaki is known for his roles as Goro in '' Tampopo'' (1985) and Nenbutsu no Tetsu on the television jidaigeki '' Hiss ...

as Shingo Takagi *

Fumio Fujimura was a Japanese baseball infielder and pitcher who played 22 seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) from 1936 to 1958. He began his career as a stellar right-handed pitcher for the Osaka Tigers, but achieved his greatest fame as a hitter. ...

as Hideo Hanamura *

Shingo Yamashiro was a Japanese television and film actor. Biography Yamashiro, who was originally from Kyoto, Japan, was born , but used Shingo Yamashiro as his stage name. He made his film acting debut in 1957. Yamashiro starred in the television series '' H ...

as Hiroshi Kamamoto *

Seizō Fukumoto (3 February 1943 – 1 January 2021) was a Japanese actor. Biography Fukumoto started acting at age 15 in Kyoto, the capital of Japanese cinema. A specialist in film and television jidaigeki set in the Edo period, he most often played a rōnin, ...

as Gen Kanemitsu *

Nobuo Kaneko was a Japanese actor. His wife was actress Yatsuko Tanami. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1946 and 1993. Career Kaneko was a versatile character actor, playing roles ranging from comedic buffoons to hardened yakuza bosses. He is es ...

as Hirokichi Asakura *

Asao Koike was a Japanese actor. He is most famous for playing yakuza roles. He is also known as voice actor. In 1950, he joined the Bungakuza Theatre Company. In 1963, he left the Bungakuza Theatre Company and established the Kumo Theatre Company. He app ...

as Hidenobu Hanamura *

Kayo Matsuo is a Japanese actress. Filmography Films * '' Endless Desire'' (1958) * '' My Second Brother'' (1959) – Yoshiko Yasumoto * ''High Teen Yakuza'' (1962) – Keiko Nakagawa * ''Aoi sanmyaku'' (1963) – Kuko * '' Hikaru umi'' (1963) – Eiko ...

as Ikenaga Satoko *Ryuji Katagiri as Ken Oba *

Guts Ishimatsu , better known as is a Japanese actor, comedian, tarento and former professional boxer who competed in the Lightweight division from 1966 to 1978. He is a one-time former WBC Lightweight Champion and an OPBF Lightweight Champion. As a boxer, h ...

as Genji Wada * Hōsei Komatsu as Tadashi Tatsuno *

Kenichi Hagiwara was a Japanese singer and actor. Music career Also known as Sho-Ken, he was the lead singer of The Tempters, which was a blues-rock band connected to the Group Sounds scene, and gained big hits in the late 1960s. Hagiwara was known for his goo ...

(Cameo) *

Hiroshi Miyauchi is a Japanese actor and talent from Chiba Prefecture. Miyauchi graduated from Nihon University. In 1969, he signed with Toei Company and made his film debut with ''Nagasaki Blues''. He first attracted attention after landing a role in a televisio ...

as Detective Ozawa *

Mikio Narita was a Japanese actor. He was most famous for playing villains, and often worked with Kinji Fukasaku. Narita graduated from Haiyuza Theatre Company acting school and joined Daiei Film. His career as a screen actor started in 1963. His film debut ...

as Takeshi Tsugawa *

Hiroki Matsukata , better known by his stage name , was a Japanese actor. He was the son of ''jidaigeki'' actor Jūshirō Konoe and actress Yaeko Mizukawa and has a younger brother, Yūki Meguro, who is also an actor. With ex-wife actress Akiko Nishina he had ...

as Ikenaga Yasuharu

References

External links

* {{Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1979 films 1970s adventure films Films directed by Eiichi Kudo 1970s Japanese-language films Yakuza films 1970s Japanese films