Makio escapes with his life, and convinces Aoki to give him money so he can travel to Shikoku and swear loyalty to another family, implying that he no longer cares what happens to Yamamori.

An emboldened Aoki moves against his enemies, humiliating Yamamori and forcing him to dissolve his family, and having Nozaki order a hit on Seki, who winds up hospitalized with severe injuries.

Yamamori persuades one of his former family members, Gen Sakagami, to approach Makio with a plan to assassinate Aoki with the help of Seki's loyal crew.

He has Kitami visit Seki's men to intimidate them into taking action, tells Gen that he will be responsible for setting a trap for Aoki, and offers his finger to Kaizu in return for a promise that his family will not interfere.

Following the success of the original five-part Battles Without Honor and Humanity series, Toei asked director Kinji Fukasaku to create another installment and he quickly agreed.

Yamane feels that New Battles Without Honor and Humanity clearly uses the previous five films as a template, with lead actor Bunta Sugawara playing "more or less the same character", although he called Makio Miyoshi more of a "reckless punk" without "much depth."

Put simply, he also said that the original series was about Japan having lost the war and the chaos and confusion as its youth fought to survive, whereas that zeitgeist is not seen at all in the new trilogy.

Toei said that the brief audio included discriminatory language about Koreans which was "frowned upon at the time," and censored prior to the film's original theatrical release in 1974.