8.1
8.1
Wolves, Pigs & Men
1964
Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Directing
N/A
CommunityBiographyvia wikipedia
Kinji Fukasaku (Japanese: 深作 欣二, Hepburn: Fukasaku Kinji; 3 July 1930 – 12 January 2003) was a Japanese filmmaker. Known for his "broad range and innovative filmmaking", he worked in many different genres and styles, but was best known for his gritty yakuza films, typified by the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series (1973–1976). According to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, his "turbulent energy and at times extreme violence express a cynical critique of social conditions and genuine sympathy for those left out of Japan's postwar prosperity". He used a cinema verite-inspired shaky camera technique in many of his films from the early 1970s. Fukasaku wrote and directed over 60 films between 1961 and 2003. Some Western sources have associated him with the Japanese New Wave movement of the 1960s and 1970s, but this belies his commercial success. His works include the Japanese portion of the Hollywood war film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), jidaigeki such as Shogun's Samurai (1978), the space opera film Message from Space (1978), the science fiction film Virus (1980), the fantasy film Samurai Reincarnation (1981), and the highly influential dystopian thriller film Battle Royale (2000). Fukasaku won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Director of the Year three times from nine nominations. He served as the sixth president of the Directors Guild of Japan from 1996 until his death from prostate cancer in 2003. He received the Purple Medal of Honor from the Japanese government for his work in 1997. His films have inspired directors such as Quentin Tarantino, William Friedkin, and John Woo.
Filmography (74 movies)
8.0
8.0
Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
2004
as Self
8.0
8.0
A Chaos of Flowers
1988
Writer
7.9
7.9
Japan Organized Crime Boss
1969
Screenplay
7.6
7.6
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
1972
Director
7.5
7.5
League of Gangsters
1963
Screenplay
7.4
7.4
The Geisha House
1999
Director
7.3
7.3
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973
Director
7.3
7.3
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1973
Director
7.3
7.3
The Threat
1966
Director
7.3
7.3
Gate of Youth
1981
Director
7.3
7.3
Battle Royale
2000
Director
7.3
7.3
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1974
Director
7.2
7.2
Bloodstained Clan of Honor
1970
Writer
7.2
7.2
Sympathy for the Underdog
1971
Screenplay
7.2
7.2
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
1975
Director
7.2
7.2
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973
Director
7.1
7.1
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Director
7.0
7.0
Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
2009
as Himself
7.0
7.0
The Mystery of Rampo
1995
as Film Director
7.0
7.0
Greed in Broad Daylight
1961
Director
7.0
7.0
Shanghai Rhapsody
1984
Screenplay
7.0
7.0
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1974
Director
7.0
7.0
Shogun's Samurai
1978
Director
7.0
7.0
The Abe Clan
1995
Director
7.0
7.0
The Challenge
1962
Director
6.9
6.9
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
1976
Director
6.9
6.9
Hokuriku Proxy War
1977
Director
6.8
6.8
Street Mobster
1972
Screenplay
6.7
6.7
Black Lizard
1968
Director
6.7
6.7
Gambling Den Heist
1975
Director
6.7
6.7
Yakuza Graveyard
1976
Director
6.6
6.6
The Fall of Ako Castle
1978
Director
6.6
6.6
Sure Death 4
1987
Writer
6.6
6.6
The Triple Cross
1992
Director
6.6
6.6
Graveyard of Honor
1975
Director
6.5
6.5
Doberman Cop
1977
Director
6.4
6.4
Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
1972
Director
6.4
6.4
Lovers Lost
1982
Screenplay
6.3
6.3
Virus
1980
Director
6.3
6.3
Miwa: A Japanese Icon
2013
as Himself (archive footage)
6.3
6.3
Blackmail Is My Life
1968
Director
6.1
6.1
Cops vs. Thugs
1975
Director
6.1
6.1
Fall Guy
1982
Director
6.0
6.0
Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm
1961
Director
6.0
6.0
Jakoman and Tetsu
1964
Director
6.0
6.0
Gambler's Farewell
1968
Director
6.0
6.0
Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor
1961
Director
6.0
6.0
Gang vs. G-Men
1962
Director
6.0
6.0
Dissolution Rites
1967
Screenplay
6.0
6.0
Rampaging Dragon of the North
1966
Director
5.9
5.9
Samurai Reincarnation
1981
Director
5.8
5.8
Message from Space
1978
Director
5.7
5.7
Legend of the Eight Samurai
1983
Screenplay
5.6
5.6
Crest of Betrayal
1994
Screenplay
5.6
5.6
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974
Director
5.6
5.6
If You Were Young: Rage
1970
Director
5.5
5.5
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
1980
Director
5.4
5.4
Violent Panic: The Big Crash
1976
Director
5.2
5.2
The Green Slime
1968
Director
5.0
5.0
The Kamikaze Guy
1966
Screenplay
5.0
5.0
Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley
1961
Director
5.0
5.0
Battle Royale II: Requiem
2003
Director
4.5
4.5
Black Rose Mansion
1969
Director
4.3
4.3
House on Fire
1986
Screenplay
The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II
2003
as Self
Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem
2003
as Self
Making of Clock Tower 3 ~How Kinji Fukasaku Changed the Game~
2003
as Himself
Making of 'Battle Royale'
2000
as Self
What's a Director?
2006
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
2001
as Self
Theater Of Life
1983
Director
Man with the Funky Hat
1961
Director
The Boss
1965
Screenplay
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