Kinji Fukasaku
Director
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).
As Director
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Battle Royale II: Requiem
2003
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973
The Green Slime
1968
Virus
1980
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1973
Message from Space
1978
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973
Graveyard of Honor
1975
Street Mobster
1972
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1974Filmography
Proof of the Man
as Shibue, Assistant Lieutenant 1977
Miwa: A Japanese Icon
as Himself (archive footage) 2013
The Mystery of Rampo
as Film Director 1995
Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
as Himself 2009
Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
as Self 2004
What's a Director?
2006
Making of Clock Tower 3 ~How Kinji Fukasaku Changed the Game~
as Himself 2003
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
as Self 2001
The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II
as Self 2003
Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem
as Self 2003