Kinji Fukasaku

Directing

Born: 1930-07-03

Died: 2003-01-12

From: Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

Gender: Male

Popularity: 1

Also Known As

深作欣二

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).

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Awards & Nominations11 won · 0 nominated

🏆 Won

Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director

The Geisha House

1999

🏆 Won

Medal with Purple Ribbon

1997

🏆 Won

Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director

Crest of Betrayal

1994

🏆 Won

Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year

House on Fire

1987

🏆 Won

Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director

Fall Guy

1983

🏆 Won

Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year

Fall Guy

1983

🏆 Won

Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director

Cops vs. Thugs

1976

🏆 Won

Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director

Graveyard of Honor

1976

🏆 Won

Japan Academy Film Prize

🏆 Won

Mainichi Film Award for Best Director

🏆 Won

Golden Arrow Award

Kinji Fukasaku

Also Known As

Biography

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Awards & Nominations11 won · 0 nominated

Acting11 titles

Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!

Proof of the Man

The Mystery of Rampo

Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza

Miwa: A Japanese Icon

What's a Director?

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

The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II

Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE

Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem

Making of 'Battle Royale'

Directing70 titles

Wounded Angels

Man with the Funky Hat

Theater Of Life

Wolves, Pigs & Men

Gambler's Farewell

Greed in Broad Daylight

Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy

League of Gangsters

Shadow Warriors

Professional Killers

The Geisha House

The Kamikaze Guy

The Abe Clan

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

Japan Organized Crime Boss

Gang vs. G-Men

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Bloodstained Clan of Honor

The Challenge

The Threat

Battle Royale

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

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Gambling Den Heist

A Chaos of Flowers

Jakoman and Tetsu

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

The Triple Cross

Gate of Youth

Sympathy for the Underdog

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

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley

Sure Death 4

Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor

Rampaging Dragon of the North

Dissolution Rites

Shanghai Rhapsody

Key Hunter

Shogun's Samurai

Black Lizard

Street Mobster

Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers

Hokuriku Proxy War

The Fall of Ako Castle

Yakuza Graveyard

Graveyard of Honor

Blackmail Is My Life

Doberman Cop

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

Fall Guy

Lovers Lost

Virus

Cops vs. Thugs

If You Were Young: Rage

Violent Panic: The Big Crash

Samurai Reincarnation

Message from Space

Legend of the Eight Samurai

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