Kinji Fukasaku

Kinji Fukasaku (深作欣二 Fukasaku Kinji) (3 July, 1930–12 January, 2003) was a Japanese film actor, writer and director. 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 film Tora! Tora! Tora! and the violent sci-fi satire (now something of a cult classic) Battle Royale.

In 1973, Fukasaku directed a violent, documentary-style yakuza film, Battles Without Honour or Humanity . Up to this point, Japan's many yakuza films had usually been set in the pre-war period, but Fukasaku's film took place in contemporary Hiroshima. A commercial and critical success, it gave rise to four sequels.

External links

• IMDb profile
• JMDb profile (in Japanese)