Kinji Fukasaku (深作欣二 Fukasaku Kinji) is a Japanese film director. He is best known in the west for directing the smash hit Battle Royale in 2000 but his 32-year career was riddled with film-making innovations, not the least of which was the way he revolutionized yakuza films by replacing chivalry and honor previously seen with the gritty violence and chaos that has become the standard approach today. He died of prostate cancer in 2003 during the filming of Battle Royale II: Requiem. His son Kenta Fukasaku took over direction of the film.
Profile[]
- Name: Kinji Fukasaku (深作欣二 Fukasaku Kinji)
- Birth date: July 3, 1930
- Birthplace: Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
- Date of death: January 12, 2003 (prostate cancer)
Filmography[]
- [1961] Wandering Detective: Tragedy in Red Valley
- [1961] Wandering Detective: Black Wind in the Harbor
- [1961] High Noon for Gangsters
- [1961] Vigilante in the Funky Hat: 200,000 Yen Arm
- [1961] Vigilante in the Funky Hat
- [1962] The Proud Challenge
- [1962-11-02] Gang vs. G-Men
- [1963-07-31] League of Gangsters
- [1964] Jakoman and Tetsu
- [1964] Wolves, Pigs & Men
- [1965-01-03] Kaoyaku (Screenplay; dir: Teruo Ishii)
- [1966] Rampaging Dragon of the North
- [1966] Odoshi
- [1966] Kamikaze Man: Duel at Noon
- [1967-04-01] The Break-up
- [1968] Black Lizard
- [1968] Gamblers' Ceremony of Disbanding
- [1968-10-26] Blackmail Is My Life
- [1968-12-19] The Green Slime
- [1969] Japan Organized Crime Boss
- [1969] Black Rose Mansion
- [1970-05-27] If You Were Young: Rage
- [1970] Bloodstained Clan Honor
- [1970] Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japan sequences)
- [1971] Sympathy for the Underdog
- [1972] Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
- [1972] Outlaw Killer: Three Maddog Killers
- [1972-05-06] Street Mobster
- [1973-01-13] The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 1: Battles Without Honor and Humanity
- [1973-04-28] The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
- [1973-09-25] The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 3: Proxy War
- [1974-01-15] The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 4: Police Tactics
- [1974-06-29] The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 5: Final Episode
- [1974-12-28] New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
- [1975] New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head
- [1975] Gambling Den Heist
- [1975-02-15] Graveyard of Honor
- [1975] Cops vs. Thugs
- [1976-10-30] Yakuza Graveyard
- [1976] Violent Panic: The Big Crash
- [1976] New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Last Days
- [1977] Hokuriku Proxy War
- [1977] Detective Doberman
- [1978] Intrigue of the Yagyu Clan
- [1978] Last of the Ako Clan
- [1978-04-29] Message from Space
- [1980] Virus
- [1981] The Gate of Youth
- [1981-06-06] Makai Tensho: Samurai Reincarnation
- [1982-06-12] Dotonbori River
- [1982-10-09] Fall Guy
- [1983] Theater of Life
- [1983] Legend of Eight Samurai
- [1984] Shanghai Rhapsody
- [1986] House on Fire
- [1987] Sure-Fire Death 4: We Will Avenge You
- [1988] A Chaos of Flowers
- [1992-09-12] The Triple Cross
- [1994] Crest of Betrayal
- [1995] The Abe Clan
- [1997] The Eaters
- [1999] The Geisha House
- [2000-12-16] Battle Royale
- [2003-07-05] Battle Royale II: Requiem
External Links[]
- Kinji Fukasaku at the Internet Movie Database
- Kinji Fukasaku at the Japanese Movie Database
- Kinji Fukasaku at Wikipedia
- Kinji Fukasaku at Japanese Wikipedia
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