Kinji Fukasaku
Directing

Kinji Fukasaku

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).

Known for

Battle Royale
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Battle Royale II: Requiem
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
The Green Slime
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Virus
Message from Space
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Graveyard of Honor
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Battle Royale II: Requiem
Battle Royale
The Geisha House
The Abe Clan
The Mystery of Rampo
Crest of Betrayal
The Triple Cross
A Chaos of Flowers
Sure Death 4
House on Fire
Shanghai Rhapsody
Legend of the Eight Samurai
Theater Of Life
Fall Guy
Lovers Lost
Samurai Reincarnation
Gate of Youth
Virus
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy
The Fall of Ako Castle
Message from Space
Proof of the Man
Doberman Cop
Hokuriku Proxy War
Yakuza Graveyard
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
Violent Panic: The Big Crash
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
Graveyard of Honor
Cops vs. Thugs
Gambling Den Heist
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Street Mobster
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
Sympathy for the Underdog
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Bloodstained Clan of Honor
If You Were Young: Rage
Japan Organized Crime Boss
Black Rose Mansion
The Green Slime
Black Lizard
Blackmail Is My Life
Gambler's Farewell
Dissolution Rites
The Kamikaze Guy
The Threat
Rampaging Dragon of the North
The Boss
Wolves, Pigs & Men
Jakoman and Tetsu
League of Gangsters
The Challenge
Gang vs. G-Men
Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley
Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm
Man with the Funky Hat
Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor
Greed in Broad Daylight
Kinji Fukasaku · Midrow