Kinji Fukasaku

Directing · Born 1930-07-03 · Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

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).

Known for

• Miwa: A Japanese Icon (2013)
• Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza (2009)
• What's a Director? (2006)
• Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell! (2004)
• Making of Clock Tower 3 ~How Kinji Fukasaku Changed the Game~ (2003)
• The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II (2003)
• Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)
• Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE (2001)
• Making of 'Battle Royale' (2000)
• The Mystery of Rampo (1994)
• Proof of the Man (1977)