Kinji Fukasaku
34 films · 1968 to 2003
Born 3 July 1930, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan · Died 12 January 2003
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).
Defining films
Films by decade
The Fall of Ako Castle
Shogun's Samurai
Message from Space
Doberman Cop
Hokuriku Proxy War
Yakuza Graveyard
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
Graveyard of Honor
Cops vs. Thugs
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Street Mobster
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
Sympathy for the Underdog
If You Were Young: Rage
