Kinji Fukasaku



Kinji Fukasaku
  • Date of Birth: 03 July, 1930
  • Place of Birth: Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture Japan
  • Biography: Kinji Fukasaku (深作 欣二, Fukasaku Kinji, 3 July 1930 – 12 January 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... Read more

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Now Its the 50 Best Movies of the Decade!
cinematical.com – 2009-09-25
Earlier today we brought you Rotten Tomatoes' list of the 100 worst reviewed films of the decade. Now, though it might be a little premature (considering that we still have a little while to go before we hit our next... ... Full Article

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The Condemned
slantmagazine.com – 2007-04-19
shameless rip on Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale , The Condemned unseats Slow Burn as the most hilariously inane film of 2007. Unraveling in a flurry of empty macho posturing and jock-boy techno, this salacious train wreck has an immoral television... ... Full Article

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Cops vs. Thugs
dvdtalk.com – 2006-06-27
Yakuza movies were at the height of their popularity during the seventies and few director's were at the forefront of the genre in the same way that the late, great Kinji Fukasaku was. ... Full Article

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Yakuza Graveyard
dvdtalk.com – 2006-06-27
One of many gritty and cynical Yakuza films directed by the late, great Kinji Fukasaku (best known stateside for Battle Royale and The Green Slime !), 1976's Yakuza Graveyard follows the story of Detective Kuroiwa (played by the uber-tough Tetsuya... ... Full Article

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Favorite Directors by country:
cinemastrikesback.com – 2005-06-14
Japan - Kinji Fukasaku, Juzo Itami, Akira Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Miike, Kenji Misumi, Sabu, Seijun Suzuki, Shinya Tsukamoto o Europe and Other - Yilmaz Atadeniz, Luis Bunuel, Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Jackson, Fritz Lang, Sergio Leone, F.W. ... Full Article

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DVD Savant
dvdtalk.com – 2005-06-07
Kinji Fukasaku's yakuza and youth-shock films (Battle Royale) can be called violent escapism, but Under the Flag of the Rising Sun is a serious film about the ugly injustice of war that makes other protests about corrupt martial systems that ... Full Article

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