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

★7.3

Battle Royale

2000

★7.2

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970

★5.0

Battle Royale II: Requiem

2003

★7.3

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973

★5.3

The Green Slime

1968

★6.3

Virus

1980

★7.3

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

1973

★5.9

Message from Space

1978

★7.0

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

1973

★6.7

Graveyard of Honor

1975

★7.0

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

1974