Kinji Fukasaku
- Directing
- July 3, 1930 · Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
- January 12, 2003
Biography
Kinji Fukasaku (July 3, 1930 – January 12, 2003) was a Japanese film actor, screenwriter, and best known as a celebrated and innovative filmmaker. He was born in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, and died in Tokyo, from prostate cancer. He is best known in the west for directing the Japanese portion of the Hollywood film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and Battle Royale (2000).
Known for
Filmography
- Miwa: A Japanese Icon · Self
- Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza · Self
- The Yagyu Conspiracy · Original Film Writer
- What's a Director?
- Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell! · Self
- Making of Clock Tower 3 ~How Kinji Fukasaku Changed the Game~ · Self
- The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II · Self
- Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem · Self
- Battle Royale II: Requiem · Director
- Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE · Self
- Battle Royale · Director, Producer
- Making of 'Battle Royale' · Self
- The Geisha House · Director
- The Abe Clan · Director
- Crest of Betrayal · Director, Screenplay
- The Mystery of Rampo · Film Director
- The Triple Cross · Director
- A Chaos of Flowers · Director, Screenplay
- Sure Death 4 · Director, Writer
- House on Fire · Director, Screenplay
- Shanghai Rhapsody · Director, Screenplay
- Legend of the Eight Samurai · Director, Screenplay
- Theater Of Life · Director, Screenplay
- Fall Guy · Director
- Lovers Lost · Director, Screenplay
- Samurai Reincarnation · Director, Writer
- Gate of Youth · Director
- Virus · Director, Screenplay
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga · Director
- Shadow Warriors · Director, Writer
- The Fall of Ako Castle · Director
- Message from Space · Director, Story
- Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy · Screenplay, Director
- Proof of the Man · Shibue, Assistant Lieutenant
- Doberman Cop · Director
- Hokuriku Proxy War · Director
- Yakuza Graveyard · Director
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss · Director
- Violent Panic: The Big Crash · Director, Screenplay
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss · Director
- Gambling Den Heist · Director
- Cops vs. Thugs · Director
- Unified Shadows · Director
- Graveyard of Honor · Director
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 · Director
- Wounded Angels · Director
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode · Director
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics · Director
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War · Director
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima · Director
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity · Director
- Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers · Director
- Professional Killers · Director
- Street Mobster · Director, Screenplay
- Under the Flag of the Rising Sun · Director, Writer
- Sympathy for the Underdog · Director, Screenplay
- If You Were Young: Rage · Director, Writer
- Bloodstained Clan of Honor · Director, Writer
- Tora! Tora! Tora! · Director
- Black Rose Mansion · Director, Writer
- Japan Organized Crime Boss · Director, Screenplay
- The Green Slime · Director, Story
- Black Lizard · Director, Screenplay
- Key Hunter · Director
- Blackmail Is My Life · Director
- Gambler's Farewell · Director
- Dissolution Rites · Director, Screenplay
- Rampaging Dragon of the North · Director
- The Kamikaze Guy · Screenplay, Director
- The Threat · Director, Screenplay
- The Boss · Screenplay, Editing
- Wolves, Pigs & Men · Director, Screenplay
- Jakoman and Tetsu · Director
- League of Gangsters · Director, Screenplay
- Gang vs. G-Men · Director
- The Challenge · Director
- Greed in Broad Daylight · Director
- Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm · Director
- Man with the Funky Hat · Director
- Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor · Director