Kinji Fukasaku
Born: 1930-07-03 in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Died: 2003-01-12
Known For: Directing
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).
Filmography
2013
- Miwa: A Japanese Icon as Himself (archive footage)
2009
- Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza as Himself
2008
- The Yagyu Conspiracy ... (Original Film Writer)
2006
2004
- Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell! as Self
2003
- Battle Royale II: Requiem ... (Director)
- The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II as Self
- Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem as Self
- Making of Clock Tower 3 ~How Kinji Fukasaku Changed the Game~ as Himself
2000
- Battle Royale ... (Director)
- Making of 'Battle Royale' as Self
1999
- The Geisha House ... (Director)
1995
- The Abe Clan ... (Director)
1994
- Crest of Betrayal ... (Director)
- The Mystery of Rampo as Film Director
1992
- The Triple Cross ... (Director)
1988
- A Chaos of Flowers ... (Director)
1987
- Sure Death 4 ... (Writer)
1986
- House on Fire ... (Director)
1984
- Shanghai Rhapsody ... (Director)
1983
- Legend of the Eight Samurai ... (Director)
- Theater Of Life ... (Screenplay)
1982
- Lovers Lost ... (Director)
- Fall Guy ... (Director)
1981
- Gate of Youth ... (Director)
- Samurai Reincarnation ... (Writer)
1980
- Shadow Warriors ... (Director)
- Virus ... (Director)
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga ... (Director)
1978
- Shogun's Samurai ... (Screenplay)
- Message from Space ... (Director)
- The Fall of Ako Castle ... (Director)
1977
- Proof of the Man as Shibue, Assistant Lieutenant
- Hokuriku Proxy War ... (Director)
- Doberman Cop ... (Director)
1976
- Yakuza Graveyard ... (Director)
- Violent Panic: The Big Crash ... (Director)
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss ... (Director)
1975
- Graveyard of Honor ... (Director)
- Unified Shadows ... (Director)
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss ... (Director)
- Gambling Den Heist ... (Director)
- Cops vs. Thugs ... (Director)
1974
- Wounded Angels ... (Director)
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics ... (Director)
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode ... (Director)
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 ... (Director)
1973
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity ... (Director)
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima ... (Director)
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War ... (Director)
1972
- Professional Killers ... (Director)
- Under the Flag of the Rising Sun ... (Director)
- Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers ... (Director)
- Street Mobster ... (Director)
1971
- Sympathy for the Underdog ... (Director)
1970
- Tora! Tora! Tora! ... (Director)
- If You Were Young: Rage ... (Writer)
- Bloodstained Clan of Honor ... (Director)
1969
- Japan Organized Crime Boss ... (Director)
- Black Rose Mansion ... (Writer)
1968
- Key Hunter ... (Director)
- The Green Slime ... (Story)
- Black Lizard ... (Director)
- Blackmail Is My Life ... (Director)
- Gambler's Farewell ... (Director)
1967
- Dissolution Rites ... (Screenplay)
1966
- The Kamikaze Guy ... (Director)
- The Threat ... (Director)
- Rampaging Dragon of the North ... (Director)
1965
- The Boss ... (Screenplay)
1964
- Wolves, Pigs & Men ... (Director)
- Jakoman and Tetsu ... (Director)
1963
- League of Gangsters ... (Director)
1962
- Gang vs. G-Men ... (Director)
- The Challenge ... (Director)
1961
- 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)
- Greed in Broad Daylight ... (Director)
- Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley ... (Director)
1960
- Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy ... (Assistant Director)
- Tale of Young Drifter 2 ... (Assistant Director)