Kinji Fukasaku News
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
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
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
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
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
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
Legend of the Eight Samurai
dvdtalk.com –
2005-02-08
Kinji Fukasaku and Sonny Chiba made a few movies together, their best being (arguably) either The Yagyu Conspiracy or Deadly Fight In Hiroshima . In 1984 they'd team up for a Samurai/fantasy hybrid film entitled The Legend Of The Eight... ... Full Article
Fall Guy
dvdtalk.com –
2005-02-08
Winner of some major prizes from the Japanese Academy (including Best Picture and Best Director) Fall Guy (1982) is a farcical look at the film industry courtesy of director Kinji Fukasaku ( The Yakuza Papers, Graveyard of Honor, Battle Royale... ... Full Article
The posthumous reappraisal of Japan's most iconoclastic pulpster, Kinji Fukasaku, continues with this handsome packaging of what came to be known as the Battles Without Honor & Humanity series. A Quentin Tarantino favorite (the title song makes a memorable appearance ... Full Article
Yakuza Demon
dvdtalk.com –
2004-12-28
You know, it is amazing how much Takashi Miike has molded a career that makes him the inheritor of Kinji Fukasaku's resume.Both are highly prolific filmmakers, doing multiple films a year, and each dabbled in different genres. ... Full Article