Kinji Fukasaku

ActorWriterDirectorProducerEditor Jul 3 (died age 72) Mito, Ibaraki, Japan 1960–2013 (53 year career)

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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

Film

Battle Royale

Director

Film

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Director

Film

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Director

Film

Battle Royale II: Requiem

Director

Film

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Director

Film

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

Director

Film

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

Director

Film

Virus

Director

Filmography

Acting (11)

Movies (11)

Miwa: A Japanese Icon

2013

as Himself (archive footage)

6.3

Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza

2009

as Himself

7.0

What's a Director?

2006

Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!

2004

as Self

8.0

Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem

2003

as Self

The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II

2003

as Self

Making of Clock Tower 3 ~How Kinji Fukasaku Changed the Game~

2003

as Himself

Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE

2001

as Self

Making of 'Battle Royale'

2000

as Self

The Mystery of Rampo

1994

as Film Director

7.0

Proof of the Man

1977

as Shibue, Assistant Lieutenant

7.6

Crew (102)

Movies (96)

The Yagyu Conspiracy

2008

Original Film Writer

Battle Royale II: Requiem

Director

Battle Royale

Director

Battle Royale

Producer

The Geisha House

Director

The Abe Clan

Director

Crest of Betrayal

Director

Crest of Betrayal

Screenplay

The Triple Cross

Director

A Chaos of Flowers

Director

A Chaos of Flowers

Writer

Sure Death 4

Director

Sure Death 4

Writer

House on Fire

Director

House on Fire

Screenplay

Shanghai Rhapsody

Director

Shanghai Rhapsody

Screenplay

Theater Of Life

Director

Theater Of Life

1983

Screenplay

Legend of the Eight Samurai

1983

Director

5.6

Legend of the Eight Samurai

Screenplay

Lovers Lost

Director

Lovers Lost

Screenplay

Fall Guy

Director

Gate of Youth

Director

Samurai Reincarnation

1981

Director

5.8

Samurai Reincarnation

Writer

Virus

Director

Virus

Screenplay

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga

Director

Message from Space

Director

Message from Space

Story

The Fall of Ako Castle

Director

Shogun's Samurai

Director

Shogun's Samurai

Screenplay

Hokuriku Proxy War

Director

Doberman Cop

Director

Violent Panic: The Big Crash

1976

Director

5.4

Violent Panic: The Big Crash

Screenplay

Yakuza Graveyard

Director

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss

Director

Cops vs. Thugs

Director

Gambling Den Heist

Director

Graveyard of Honor

Director

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

1975

Director

7.2

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

1974

Director

7.0

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

1974

Director

7.2

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

1974

Director

5.4

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

1973

Director

7.0

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973

Director

7.3

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Director

Street Mobster

Director

Street Mobster

Screenplay

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

1972

Director

7.6

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

1972

Writer

7.6

Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers

1972

Director

6.4

Sympathy for the Underdog

1971

Director

7.1

Sympathy for the Underdog

Screenplay

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Director

If You Were Young: Rage

1970

Director

5.6

If You Were Young: Rage

1970

Writer

5.6

Bloodstained Clan of Honor

1970

Director

7.2

Bloodstained Clan of Honor

Writer

Black Rose Mansion

Director

Black Rose Mansion

Writer

Japan Organized Crime Boss

1969

Director

7.6

Japan Organized Crime Boss

Screenplay

The Green Slime

Director

The Green Slime

Story

Black Lizard

Director

Black Lizard

Screenplay

Blackmail Is My Life

Director

Gambler's Farewell

Director

Dissolution Rites

Director

Dissolution Rites

Screenplay

Rampaging Dragon of the North

Director

The Threat

Director

The Threat

Screenplay

The Kamikaze Guy

Director

The Kamikaze Guy

Screenplay

The Boss

Editor

The Boss

1965

Screenplay

Jakoman and Tetsu

Director

Wolves, Pigs & Men

Director

Wolves, Pigs & Men

Screenplay

League of Gangsters

Director

League of Gangsters

Screenplay

The Challenge

Director

Gang vs. G-Men

Director

Man with the Funky Hat

1961

Director

Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm

1961

Director

6.0

Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley

1961

Director

5.0

Greed in Broad Daylight

1961

Director

7.0

Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor

1961

Director

6.0

Tale of Young Drifter 2

1960

Assistant Director

Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy

1960

Assistant Director

7.0

Television (6)

Shadow Warriors

Director

Shadow Warriors

Writer

Unified Shadows

Director

Wounded Angels

Director

Professional Killers

Director

Key Hunter

Director