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).
Filmography
Battle Royale
Director
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Director
Battle Royale II: Requiem
Director
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Director
The Green Slime
Director
Virus
Director
Message from Space
Director
Graveyard of Honor
Director
Street Mobster
Director
Shogun's Samurai
Director
Samurai Reincarnation
Director
Sympathy for the Underdog
Director
Yakuza Graveyard
Director
Legend of the Eight Samurai
Director
Black Lizard
Director
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
Director