
Kinji Fukasaku
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).
Acting (11 movies)

What's a Director?
2006

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

Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
2001

The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II
2003

Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem
2003

Proof of the Man
1977

The Mystery of Rampo
1995

Miwa: A Japanese Icon
2013

Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
2009

Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
2004

Making of 'Battle Royale'
2000
Directing (63 movies)

Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970

Battle Royale
2000

Street Mobster
1972

Fall Guy
1982

Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973

Shogun's Samurai
1978

The Green Slime
1968

Virus
1980

Black Lizard
1968

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
1972

The Geisha House
1999

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1974

The Kamikaze Guy
1966

Yakuza Graveyard
1976

Legend of the Eight Samurai
1983

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974

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

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

The Fall of Ako Castle
1978

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1974

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1973

Graveyard of Honor
1975

Sympathy for the Underdog
1971

Samurai Reincarnation
1981

Message from Space
1978

Bloodstained Clan of Honor
1970

Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
1972

Cops vs. Thugs
1975

Doberman Cop
1977

Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley
1961

Japan Organized Crime Boss
1969

Blackmail Is My Life
1968

Black Rose Mansion
1969

If You Were Young: Rage
1970

The Triple Cross
1992

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

Lovers Lost
1982

Gate of Youth
1981

Hokuriku Proxy War
1977

Violent Panic: The Big Crash
1976

Wolves, Pigs & Men
1964

Crest of Betrayal
1994

The Abe Clan
1995

Sure Death 4
1987

House on Fire
1986

Gambling Den Heist
1975

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
1980

A Chaos of Flowers
1988

The Challenge
1962

Man with the Funky Hat
1961

Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor
1961

Gambler's Farewell
1968

Greed in Broad Daylight
1961

Jakoman and Tetsu
1964

The Threat
1966

Rampaging Dragon of the North
1966

Gang vs. G-Men
1962

Dissolution Rites
1967

Theater Of Life
1983

Battle Royale II: Requiem
2003

League of Gangsters
1963

Shanghai Rhapsody
1984
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| League of Gangsters | 1963 | Screenplay | 
| Wolves, Pigs & Men | 1964 | Screenplay | 
| The Boss | 1965 | Screenplay | 
| The Threat | 1966 | Screenplay | 
| The Kamikaze Guy | 1966 | Screenplay | 
| Dissolution Rites | 1967 | Screenplay | 
| Black Lizard | 1968 | Screenplay | 
| Japan Organized Crime Boss | 1969 | Screenplay | 
| Black Rose Mansion | 1969 | Writer | 
| Bloodstained Clan of Honor | 1970 | Writer | 
| If You Were Young: Rage | 1970 | Writer | 
| Sympathy for the Underdog | 1971 | Screenplay | 
| Under the Flag of the Rising Sun | 1972 | Writer | 
| Street Mobster | 1972 | Screenplay | 
| Violent Panic: The Big Crash | 1976 | Screenplay | 
| Shogun's Samurai | 1978 | Screenplay | 
| Virus | 1980 | Screenplay | 
| Samurai Reincarnation | 1981 | Writer | 
| Lovers Lost | 1982 | Screenplay | 
| Theater Of Life | 1983 | Screenplay | 
| Legend of the Eight Samurai | 1983 | Screenplay | 
| Shanghai Rhapsody | 1984 | Screenplay | 
| House on Fire | 1986 | Screenplay | 
| Sure Death 4 | 1987 | Writer | 
| A Chaos of Flowers | 1988 | Writer | 
| Crest of Betrayal | 1994 | Screenplay | 
| Battle Royale | 2000 | Producer |