Kinji Fukasaku
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
- Directing
- Born
- 1930-07-03 · Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
- Died
- 2003-01-12
Known for
- Battle Royale (2000) — Director
- Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) — Director
- Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003) — Director
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973) — Director
- The Green Slime (1968) — Director
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973) — Director
- Virus (1980) — Director
- Message from Space (1978) — Director
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973) — Director
- Graveyard of Honor (1975) — Director
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974) — Director
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974) — Director
- Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (1978) — Screenplay
- Street Mobster (1972) — Director
- Samurai Reincarnation (1981) — Director
- Sympathy for the Underdog (1971) — Director