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Kinji Fukasaku
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🎂 July 3, 1930📍 Mito, Ibaraki, Japan🕯️ January 12, 2003 · Age 72
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).
BODY OF WORK
Kinji Fukasaku's Filmography
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Miwa: A Japanese Icon
2013⭐ 6.3
as Self (archive footage)
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Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
2009⭐ 6.5
as Himself
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What's a Director?
2006
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Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
2004⭐ 8.5
as Self
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Making of Clock Tower 3 ~How Kinji Fukasaku Changed the Game~
2003
as Himself
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The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II
2003
as Self
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Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem
2003
as Self
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Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
2001
as Self
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Making of 'Battle Royale'
2000
as Self
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The Mystery of Rampo
1994⭐ 7.1
as Film Director
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Proof of the Man
1977⭐ 7.8
as Shibue, Assistant Lieutenant