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 Self (archive footage)
2009
- Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza as Himself
2008
- The Yagyu Conspiracy ... (Original Film Writer)
2007
- Fleshdance ... (Creator)
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
- Fall Guy ... (Director)
- Lovers Lost ... (Director)
1981
- Samurai Reincarnation ... (Writer)
- Gate of Youth ... (Director)
1980
- Shadow Warriors ... (Director)
- Virus ... (Director)
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga ... (Director)
1978
- Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy ... (Screenplay)
- Message from Space ... (Director)
- The Fall of Ako Castle ... (Director)
1977
- Proof of the Man as Shibue, Assistant Lieutenant
- Doberman Cop ... (Director)
- Hokuriku Proxy War ... (Director)
1976
- Yakuza Graveyard ... (Director)
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss ... (Director)
- Violent Panic: The Big Crash ... (Director)
1975
- Unified Shadows ... (Director)
- Graveyard of Honor ... (Director)
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss ... (Director)
- Cops vs. Thugs ... (Director)
- Gambling Den Heist ... (Director)
1974
- Wounded Angels ... (Director)
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode ... (Director)
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 ... (Director)
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics ... (Director)
1973
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima ... (Director)
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity ... (Director)
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War ... (Director)
1972
- Professional Killers ... (Director)
- Street Mobster ... (Director)
- Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers ... (Director)
- Under the Flag of the Rising Sun ... (Director)
1971
- Sympathy for the Underdog ... (Director)
1970
- Tora! Tora! Tora! ... (Director)
- Bloodstained Clan of Honor ... (Director)
- If You Were Young: Rage ... (Writer)
1969
- Japan Organized Crime Boss ... (Director)
- Black Rose Mansion ... (Writer)
1968
- Key Hunter ... (Director)
- The Green Slime ... (Story)
- Blackmail Is My Life ... (Director)
- Black Lizard ... (Director)
- Gambler's Farewell ... (Director)
1967
- Dissolution Rites ... (Screenplay)
1966
- Rampaging Dragon of the North ... (Director)
- The Threat ... (Director)
- The Kamikaze Guy ... (Director)
1965
- The Boss ... (Screenplay)
1964
- Jakoman and Tetsu ... (Director)
- Wolves, Pigs & Men ... (Director)
1963
- League of Gangsters ... (Director)
1962
- The Challenge ... (Director)
- Gang vs. G-Men ... (Director)
1961
- Man with the Funky Hat ... (Director)
- Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor ... (Director)
- Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm ... (Director)
- Greed in Broad Daylight ... (Director)
- Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley ... (Director)
1960
- Tale of Young Drifter 2 ... (Assistant Director)
- Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy ... (Assistant Director)