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Profile of Kinji Fukasaku
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Kinji Fukasaku |
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3rd July 1930 |
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Mito, Japan |
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Director |
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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 as a director.
He is well known in the west for directing the Japanese portion of the film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and the violent sci-fi satire Battle Royale (2000).
In 1973, Fukasaku directed a groundbreaking yakuza film, Battles Without Honour and Humanity (Jingi Naki Tatakai), AKA The Yakuza Papers. Up to this point, Japan's many yakuza films had usually been tales of chivalry (ninkyo) set in the pre-war period, but Fukasaku's ultraviolent, documentary-style film took place in chaotic post-War Hiroshima. A commercial and critical success, it gave rise to four sequels.
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