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).

Crew

Shogun's Samurai
Screenplay, Director
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Director
Battle Royale
Director, Producer
Street Mobster
Director, Screenplay
Fall Guy
Director
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Director
The Green Slime
Director, Story
Virus
Director, Screenplay
Black Lizard
Director, Screenplay
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
Director, Writer
The Geisha House
Director
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Director
The Kamikaze Guy
Director, Screenplay
Yakuza Graveyard
Director
Legend of the Eight Samurai
Director, Screenplay
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, Screenplay
Samurai Reincarnation
Director, Writer
Message from Space
Director, Story
Bloodstained Clan of Honor
Director, 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, Screenplay
Blackmail Is My Life
Director
Black Rose Mansion
Director, Writer
If You Were Young: Rage
Director, Writer
The Triple Cross
Director
Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm
Director
Lovers Lost
Director, Screenplay
Gate of Youth
Director
Hokuriku Proxy War
Director
Violent Panic: The Big Crash
Director, Screenplay
Wolves, Pigs & Men
Director, Screenplay
Crest of Betrayal
Director, Screenplay
The Abe Clan
Director
Sure Death 4
Director, Writer
House on Fire
Director, Screenplay
Gambling Den Heist
Director
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
Director
A Chaos of Flowers
Director, 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, Editor
Gambler's Farewell
Director
Greed in Broad Daylight
Director
Jakoman and Tetsu
Director
The Threat
Director, Screenplay
Rampaging Dragon of the North
Director
Gang vs. G-Men
Director
Dissolution Rites
Director, Screenplay
Theater Of Life
Director, Screenplay
Battle Royale II: Requiem
Director
Tale of Young Drifter 2
Assistant Director
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
Assistant Director
League of Gangsters
Director, Screenplay
Shanghai Rhapsody
Director, Screenplay