Kinji Fukasaku

Kinji Fukasaku

​   Kinji Fukasaku (3 July 1930 – 12 January 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 Made by Kinji Fukasaku (67)

The Yagyu Conspiracy (2008)

Original Film Writer

Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)

Director

Battle Royale (2000)

Director

The Geisha House (1999)

Director

The Abe Clan (1995)

Director

Crest of Betrayal (1994)

Director

The Triple Cross (1992)

Director

A Chaos of Flowers (1988)

Director

Sure Death 4 (1987)

Director

House on Fire (1986)

Director

Shanghai Rhapsody (1984)

Director

Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983)

Director

Theater Of Life (1983)

Director

Fall Guy (1982)

Director

Lovers Lost (1982)

Director

Samurai Reincarnation (1981)

Director

Gate of Youth (1981)

Director

Virus (1980)

Director

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga (1980)

Director

The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)

Director

Message from Space (1978)

Director

Shogun's Samurai (1978)

Director

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

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

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)

Director

Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)

Director

If You Were Young: Rage (1970)

Director

Bloodstained Clan of Honor (1970)

Director

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Director

Black Rose Mansion (1969)

Director

Japan Organized Crime Boss (1969)

Director

The Green Slime (1968)

Director

Black Lizard (1968)

Director

Blackmail Is My Life (1968)

Director

Gambler's Farewell (1968)

Director

Dissolution Rites (1967)

Director

Rampaging Dragon of the North (1966)

Director

The Kamikaze Guy (1966)

Director

The Threat (1966)

Director

The Boss (1965)

Editor

Wolves, Pigs & Men (1964)

Director

Jakoman and Tetsu (1964)

Director

League of Gangsters (1963)

Director

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

Movies starring Kinji Fukasaku (11)

Miwa: A Japanese Icon (2013)

Himself (Archive Footage)

Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza (2009)

Himself

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

Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE (2001)

Self

Making of 'Battle Royale' (2000)

Self

The Mystery of Rampo (1994)

Film Director

Proof of the Man (1977)

Shibue, Assistant Lieutenant

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