← Back

No Image

Kinji Fukasaku

Born: 1930-07-03 • Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

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).

Filmography
Miwa: A Japanese Icon poster
Miwa: A Japanese Icon
2013 • Himself (archive footage)
Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza poster
Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
2009 • Himself
What's a Director? poster
What's a Director?
2006
Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell! poster
Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
2004 • Self
Making of Clock Tower 3 ~How Kinji Fukasaku Changed the Game~ poster
Making of Clock Tower 3 ~How Kinji Fukasaku Changed the Game~
2003 • Himself
The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II poster
The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II
2003 • Self
Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem poster
Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem
2003 • Self
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE poster
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
2001 • Self
Making of 'Battle Royale' poster
Making of 'Battle Royale'
2000 • Self
The Mystery of Rampo poster
The Mystery of Rampo
1994 • Film Director
Proof of the Man poster
Proof of the Man
1977 • Shibue, Assistant Lieutenant