🎬 Director
Kinji Fukasaku
🎂 Born 3 July 1930 (age 72)✝ 12 January 2003📍 Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
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Popularity Score
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Acting Credits
63
Directed
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
Directed Films(63)
★ 7.3
Battle Royale
2000
Director
★ 7.2
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Director
★ 5.9
Samurai Reincarnation
1981
Director
★ 5.0
Battle Royale II: Requiem
2003
Director
★ 6.9
Black Lizard
1968
Director
★ 6.3
Virus
1980
Director
★ 7.3
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1973
Director
★ 5.8
Legend of the Eight Samurai
1983
Director
★ 6.9
Shogun's Samurai
1978
Director
★ 7.4
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973
Director
★ 4.6
House on Fire
1986
Director
★ 6.4
Lovers Lost
1982
Director
★ 5.9
Message from Space
1978
Director
★ 7.2
Gate of Youth
1981
Director
★ 6.7
The Fall of Ako Castle
1978
Director
★ 7.0
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973
Director
★ 6.6
Graveyard of Honor
1975
Director
★ 5.3
The Green Slime
1968
Director
★ 7.5
Japan Organized Crime Boss
1969
Director
★ 5.4
Crest of Betrayal
1994
Director
★ 6.8
Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
1972
Director
★ 6.6
Yakuza Graveyard
1976
Director
★ 7.5
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
1972
Director
★ 7.0
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1974
Director
★ 6.4
Fall Guy
1982
Director
★ 6.8
Street Mobster
1972
Director
★ 7.3
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
1975
Director
★ 6.8
Hokuriku Proxy War
1977
Director
★ 9.0
Theater Of Life
1983
Director
★ 7.2
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1974
Director
★ 7.0
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
1976
Director
★ 7.7
The Kamikaze Guy
1966
Director
★ 4.9
Black Rose Mansion
1969
Director
★ 7.0
Sure Death 4
1987
Director
★ 7.3
A Chaos of Flowers
1988
Director
★ 7.1
Sympathy for the Underdog
1971
Director
★ 5.7
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974
Director
★ 7.0
Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley
1961
Director
★ 6.1
Cops vs. Thugs
1975
Director
★ 7.4
The Challenge
1962
Director
★ 7.0
Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor
1961
Director
★ 6.0
Violent Panic: The Big Crash
1976
Director
★ 7.2
The Triple Cross
1992
Director
★ 8.1
Wolves, Pigs & Men
1964
Director
★ 6.6
Blackmail Is My Life
1968
Director
★ 7.0
Dissolution Rites
1967
Director
★ 7.7
The Geisha House
1999
Director
★ 6.5
Doberman Cop
1977
Director
★ 7.4
Bloodstained Clan of Honor
1970
Director
★ 9.0
Man with the Funky Hat
1961
Director
★ 6.0
If You Were Young: Rage
1970
Director
★ 7.3
Gambling Den Heist
1975
Director
★ 7.7
The Abe Clan
1995
Director
★ 7.4
The Threat
1966
Director
★ 5.5
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
1980
Director
★ 7.3
Jakoman and Tetsu
1964
Director
★ 7.0
Rampaging Dragon of the North
1966
Director
★ 7.0
Shanghai Rhapsody
1984
Director
★ 8.0
League of Gangsters
1963
Director
★ 7.5
Gang vs. G-Men
1962
Director
★ 8.0
Greed in Broad Daylight
1961
Director
★ 6.5
Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm
1961
Director
★ 8.0
Gambler's Farewell
1968
Director
Full Filmography(11 films)
YearTitleRating
1977Proof of the Man★ 7.81994The Mystery of Rampo★ 7.22013Miwa: A Japanese Icon★ 6.32006What's a Director?—2001Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE—2000Making of 'Battle Royale'—2009Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza★ 7.02003Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem—2004Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!★ 8.52003Making of Clock Tower 3 ~How Kinji Fukasaku Changed the Game~—2003The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II—