
Kinji Fukasaku
Department: Directing
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).
Known For

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
1994

Miwa: A Japanese Icon
2013

Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
2009

Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
2004

Making of 'Battle Royale'
2000