Kinji Fukasaku

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).

Miwa: A Japanese Icon
2013
Himself (archive footage)

Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
2009
Himself

The Yagyu Conspiracy
2008
Original Film Writer

What's a Director?
2006

Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
2004
Self

Battle Royale II: Requiem
2003
Director

Making of Clock Tower 3 ~How Kinji Fukasaku Changed the Game~
2003
Himself

The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II
2003
Self

Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem
2003
Self

Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
2001
Self

Battle Royale
2000
Director

Making of 'Battle Royale'
2000
Self

The Geisha House
1999
Director

The Abe Clan
1995
Director

The Mystery of Rampo
1995
Film Director

Crest of Betrayal
1994
Director

The Triple Cross
1992
Director

A Chaos of Flowers
1988
Director

Sure Death 4
1987
Writer

House on Fire
1986
Director

Shanghai Rhapsody
1984
Director

Legend of the Eight Samurai
1983
Director

Theater Of Life
1983
Screenplay

Fall Guy
1982
Director

Lovers Lost
1982
Director

Samurai Reincarnation
1981
Writer

Gate of Youth
1981
Director

Virus
1980
Director

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
1980
Director

Shogun's Samurai
1978
Screenplay

The Fall of Ako Castle
1978
Director

Message from Space
1978
Director

Doberman Cop
1977
Director

Hokuriku Proxy War
1977
Director

Proof of the Man
1977
Shibue, Assistant Lieutenant

Yakuza Graveyard
1976
Director

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
1976
Director

Violent Panic: The Big Crash
1976
Director

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
1975
Director

Graveyard of Honor
1975
Director

Cops vs. Thugs
1975
Director

Gambling Den Heist
1975
Director

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1974
Director

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974
Director

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1974
Director

Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973
Director

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973
Director

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1973
Director

Street Mobster
1972
Director

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
1972
Director

Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
1972
Director

Sympathy for the Underdog
1971
Director

Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Director

Bloodstained Clan of Honor
1970
Director

If You Were Young: Rage
1970
Writer

Japan Organized Crime Boss
1969
Director

Black Rose Mansion
1969
Writer

The Green Slime
1968
Story

Black Lizard
1968
Director

Blackmail Is My Life
1968
Director

Gambler's Farewell
1968
Director

Dissolution Rites
1967
Screenplay

The Kamikaze Guy
1966
Director

The Threat
1966
Director

Rampaging Dragon of the North
1966
Director

The Boss
1965
Screenplay

Wolves, Pigs & Men
1964
Director

Jakoman and Tetsu
1964
Director

League of Gangsters
1963
Director

The Challenge
1962
Director

Gang vs. G-Men
1962
Director

Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley
1961
Director

Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm
1961
Director

Man with the Funky Hat
1961
Director

Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor
1961
Director

Greed in Broad Daylight
1961
Director

Tale of Young Drifter 2
1960
Assistant Director

Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
1960
Assistant Director