Kinji Fukasaku
Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture Japan

Kinji Fukasaku (3 July 1930 – 12 January 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).

Top 10 collaborators

Roles

Crew

The Yagyu Conspiracy (2008)
Original Film Writer
Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)
Director
Battle Royale (2000)
Director | Producer
The Geisha House (1999)
Director
The Abe Clan (1995)
Director
Crest of Betrayal (1994)
Director | Screenplay
The Triple Cross (1992)
Director
A Chaos of Flowers (1988)
Director | Writer
Sure Death 4 (1987)
Director | Writer
House on Fire (1986)
Director | Screenplay
Shanghai Vance King (1984)
Director | Screenplay
Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983)
Director | Screenplay
Theater Of Life (1983)
Director | Screenplay
Fall Guy (1982)
Director
Lovers Lost (1982)
Director | Screenplay
Samurai Reincarnation (1981)
Director | Writer
Gate of Youth (1981)
Director
Virus (1980)
Director | Screenplay
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga (1980)
Director
The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)
Director
Message from Space (1978)
Director | Story
Shogun's Samurai (1978)
Director | Screenplay
Doberman Cop (1977)
Director
Hokuriku Proxy War (1977)
Director
Yakuza Graveyard (1976)
Director
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss (1976)
Director
Violent Panic: The Big Crash (1976)
Director | Screenplay
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss (1975)
Director
Gambling Den Heist (1975)
Director
Cops vs. Thugs (1975)
Director
Graveyard of Honor (1975)
Director
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 (1974)
Director
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974)
Director
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974)
Director
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973)
Director
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
Director
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
Director
Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers (1972)
Director
Street Mobster (1972)
Director | Screenplay
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)
Director | Writer
Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
Director | Screenplay
If You Were Young: Rage (1970)
Director | Writer
Bloodstained Clan Of Honor (1970)
Director | Writer
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Director
Black Rose Mansion (1969)
Director | Writer
Japan Organized Crime Boss (1969)
Director | Screenplay
The Green Slime (1968)
Director | Story
Black Lizard (1968)
Director
Blackmail Is My Life (1968)
Director
Gambler's Farewell (1968)
Director
Dissolution Rites (1967)
Director | Screenplay
Rampaging Dragon of the North (1966)
Director
The Kamikaze Guy (1966)
Director | Screenplay
The Threat (1966)
Director | Screenplay
The Boss (1965)
Editor | Screenplay
Wolves, Pigs & Men (1964)
Director | Writer
Jakoman and Tetsu (1964)
Director
League of Gangsters (1963)
Director | Screenplay
Gang vs. G-Men (1962)
Director
The Challenge (1962)
Director
Greed in Broad Daylight (1961)
Director
Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm (1961)
Director
Man with the Funky Hat (1961)
Director
Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor (1961)
Director
Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley (1961)
Director
Tale of Young Drifter 2 (1960)
Assistant Director
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy (1960)
Assistant Director