Kinji Fukasaku

AKA: 深作 欣二
4.093

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).

Crew Roles

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