Trailer for The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Goichi Suda’s inspiration for Grasshopper’s No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle.

This 1973 film looks like the fucking business. The second entry in a series often described as “the Japanese Godfather,” Deadly Fight also goes by Jingi Naki Tatakai: Hiroshima Shito Hen and Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deathmatch in Hiroshima.

It stars Sonny Chiba and Bunta Sugawara, and is directed by Kinji Fukasaku. I’m tempted to buy the box set, which contains the first five films from The Yakuza Papers series.

This is likely the “intense fight” that Suda wants to recreate in Desperate Struggle:

The gunshot sounds make me feel like I’m playing Lethal Enforcers all over again. “You missed me, pig!”

Another excerpt from the Suda’s interview in this month’s issue of Nintendo Power:

“We got lots of comments about the open world and the Wii controls. We’re going to be using a lot of feedback from the users to improve on those two things.

I once again want to surprise everyone like we did with the first No More Heroes.”

He also says that he’d like to add Wii MotionPlus support, but Marvelous will make the final decision on that.

See also: Suda Not Directing NMH 2.

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