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Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Defining Films
Profile
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 (34)
Battle Royale
Battle Royale II: Requiem
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Geisha House
Crest of Betrayal
Legend of the Eight Samurai
Fall Guy
Lovers Lost
Samurai Reincarnation
Virus
Message from Space
The Fall of Ako Castle
Shogun's Samurai
Doberman Cop
Hokuriku Proxy War
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
Yakuza Graveyard
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
Graveyard of Honor
Cops vs. Thugs
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
Street Mobster
Sympathy for the Underdog
If You Were Young: Rage
Japan Organized Crime Boss
The Green Slime
Black Lizard
Blackmail Is My Life