Kinji Fukasaku

Known for: Directing
Born: July 3, 1930, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Died: January 12, 2003
Movies: 75

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).

Best-Known Movies

7.3

Battle Royale

2000

7.2

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970

5.0

Battle Royale II: Requiem

2003

7.3

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973

5.3

The Green Slime

1968

7.3

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

1973

6.3

Virus

1980

5.9

Message from Space

1978

7.0

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

1973

6.7

Graveyard of Honor

1975

Filmography

2013	Miwa: A Japanese Icon	Self (archive footage)
2009	Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza	Himself
2006	What's a Director?
2004	Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!	Self
2003	Making of Clock Tower 3 ~How Kinji Fukasaku Changed the Game~	Himself
2003	The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II	Self
2003	Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem	Self
2001	Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE	Self
2000	Making of 'Battle Royale'	Self
1994	The Mystery of Rampo	Film Director
1977	Proof of the Man	Shibue, Assistant Lieutenant

Directing, Writing & Producing

2003	Battle Royale II: Requiem	Director
2000	Battle Royale	Director, Producer
1999	The Geisha House	Director
1995	The Abe Clan	Director
1994	Crest of Betrayal	Director, Screenplay
1992	The Triple Cross	Director
1988	A Chaos of Flowers	Director, Screenplay
1987	Sure Death 4	Director, Writer
1986	House on Fire	Director, Screenplay
1984	Shanghai Rhapsody	Director, Screenplay
1983	Legend of the Eight Samurai	Director, Screenplay
1983	Theater Of Life	Director, Screenplay
1982	Fall Guy	Director
1982	Lovers Lost	Director, Screenplay
1981	Samurai Reincarnation	Director, Writer
1981	Gate of Youth	Director
1980	Virus	Director, Screenplay
1980	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga	Director
1978	The Fall of Ako Castle	Director
1978	Message from Space	Director
1978	Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy	Screenplay, Director
1977	Doberman Cop	Director
1977	Hokuriku Proxy War	Director
1976	Yakuza Graveyard	Director
1976	New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss	Director
1976	Violent Panic: The Big Crash	Director, Screenplay
1975	New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss	Director
1975	Gambling Den Heist	Director
1975	Cops vs. Thugs	Director
1975	Graveyard of Honor	Director
1974	New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1	Director
1974	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode	Director
1974	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics	Director
1973	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War	Director
1973	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima	Director
1973	Battles Without Honor and Humanity	Director
1972	Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers	Director
1972	Street Mobster	Director, Screenplay
1972	Under the Flag of the Rising Sun	Director, Writer
1971	Sympathy for the Underdog	Director, Screenplay
1970	If You Were Young: Rage	Director, Writer
1970	Bloodstained Clan of Honor	Director, Writer
1970	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Director
1969	Black Rose Mansion	Director, Writer
1969	Japan Organized Crime Boss	Director, Screenplay
1968	The Green Slime	Director
1968	Black Lizard	Director, Screenplay
1968	Blackmail Is My Life	Director
1968	Gambler's Farewell	Director
1967	Dissolution Rites	Director, Screenplay
1966	Rampaging Dragon of the North	Director
1966	The Kamikaze Guy	Screenplay, Director
1966	The Threat	Director, Screenplay
1965	The Boss	Screenplay
1964	Wolves, Pigs & Men	Director, Screenplay
1964	Jakoman and Tetsu	Director
1963	League of Gangsters	Director, Screenplay
1962	Gang vs. G-Men	Director
1962	The Challenge	Director
1961	Greed in Broad Daylight	Director
1961	Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm	Director
1961	Man with the Funky Hat	Director
1961	Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor	Director
1961	Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley	Director

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