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#10,373 All-time worldwide
#48 1974 releases

Movie profile

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

1974 · 101 min · Toei Company

Crime Drama Action
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.1M
Budget $125,000
Gross minus budget $2.0M
ROI 17.12x

Domestic gross

$1.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$192,600

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #10,373 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1974 releases #48 Release-year chart position of 72 titles Ranked against movies released in 1974. Studio / company #23 Toei Company of 27 titles Position inside the mapped Toei Company movie set. Primary genre #1,602 Crime of 1,921 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974) earned a reported $2.1M worldwide against a reported $125.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $2.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 17.12x. In this database it currently ranks #10,373 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #48 among 1974 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,140,000
Budget
$125,000
Gross minus budget
$2,015,000
ROI
17.12x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 15, 1974
Production
Toei Company
Countries
JP

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Studio / production companyToei Company FranchiseThe Yakuza Papers Release year chart1974 box office Genre chartCrime Genre chartDrama Genre chartAction

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1974, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics is positioned in this dataset as a Crime, Drama, Action title from Toei Company. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.1M, reported production budget is $125,000, gross-minus-budget is $2.0M, ROI is 17.12x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,373 all-time in the current chart set and #48 among 1974 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.