Kinji Fukasaku
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).
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Movies (78)
Miwa: A Japanese Icon
2013 · Self (archive footage)
Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
2009 · Himself
The Yagyu Conspiracy
2008 · Original Film Writer
What's a Director?
2006
Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
2004 · Self
Making of Clock Tower 3 ~How Kinji Fukasaku Changed the Game~
2003 · Himself
The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II
2003 · Self
Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem
2003 · Self
Battle Royale II: Requiem
2003 · Director
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
2001 · Self
Battle Royale
2000 · Director, Producer
Making of 'Battle Royale'
2000 · Self
The Geisha House
1999 · Director
The Abe Clan
1995 · Director
Crest of Betrayal
1994 · Director, Screenplay
The Mystery of Rampo
1994 · Film Director
The Triple Cross
1992 · Director
A Chaos of Flowers
1988 · Director, Screenplay
Sure Death 4
1987 · Director, Writer
House on Fire
1986 · Director, Screenplay
Shanghai Rhapsody
1984 · Director, Screenplay
Legend of the Eight Samurai
1983 · Director, Screenplay
Theater Of Life
1983 · Director, Screenplay
Fall Guy
1982 · Director
Lovers Lost
1982 · Director, Screenplay
Samurai Reincarnation
1981 · Director, Writer
Gate of Youth
1981 · Director
Virus
1980 · Director, Screenplay
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
1980 · Director
The Fall of Ako Castle
1978 · Director
Message from Space
1978 · Director, Story
Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy
1978 · Screenplay, Director
Proof of the Man
1977 · Shibue, Assistant Lieutenant
Doberman Cop
1977 · Director
Hokuriku Proxy War
1977 · Director
Yakuza Graveyard
1976 · Director
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
1976 · Director
Violent Panic: The Big Crash
1976 · Director, Screenplay
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
1975 · Director
Gambling Den Heist
1975 · Director
Cops vs. Thugs
1975 · Director
Graveyard of Honor
1975 · Director
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974 · Director
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1974 · Director
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1974 · Director
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973 · Director
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1973 · Director
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973 · Director
Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
1972 · Director
Street Mobster
1972 · Director, Screenplay
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
1972 · Director, Writer
Sympathy for the Underdog
1971 · Director, Screenplay
If You Were Young: Rage
1970 · Director, Writer
Bloodstained Clan of Honor
1970 · Director, Writer
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · Director
Black Rose Mansion
1969 · Director, Writer
Japan Organized Crime Boss
1969 · Director, Screenplay
The Green Slime
1968 · Director, Story
Black Lizard
1968 · Director, Screenplay
Blackmail Is My Life
1968 · Director
Gambler's Farewell
1968 · Director
Dissolution Rites
1967 · Director, Screenplay
Rampaging Dragon of the North
1966 · Director
The Kamikaze Guy
1966 · Screenplay, Director
The Threat
1966 · Director, Screenplay
The Boss
1965 · Screenplay, Editor
Wolves, Pigs & Men
1964 · Director, Screenplay
Jakoman and Tetsu
1964 · Director
League of Gangsters
1963 · Director, Screenplay
Gang vs. G-Men
1962 · Director
The Challenge
1962 · Director
Greed in Broad Daylight
1961 · Director
Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm
1961 · Director
Man with the Funky Hat
1961 · Director
Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor
1961 · Director
Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley
1961 · Director
Tale of Young Drifter 2
1960 · Assistant Director
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
1960 · Assistant Director
