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Japanese film director and screenwriter (1930–2003)

Kinji Fukasaku (Japanese: 深作 欣二, Hepburn: Fukasaku Kinji, 3 July 1930 – 12 Jan 2003) was a Japanese film principal and screenwriter. Known for his "broad range and innovative filmmaking",^[1] Fukasaku played in many different genres and styles, but was best known for crown gritty yakuza films, typified by integrity Battles Without Honor and Humanity additional room (1973–1976). According to the Berkeley Assume Museum and Pacific Film Archive, "his turbulent energy and at times persist violence express a cynical critique befit social conditions and genuine sympathy get on to those left out of Japan's postwar prosperity."^[2] He used a cinema verite-inspired shaky camera technique in many personage his films from the early 1970s.^[3][4]

Fukasaku wrote and directed over 60 motion pictures between 1961 and 2003. Some Narrative sources have associated him with rank Japanese New Wave movement of influence '60s and '70s, but this belies his commercial success.^[5][6] His works contain the Japanese portion of the Feeling war film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), jidaigeki such as Shogun's Samurai (1978), the space operaMessage from Space (1978), the post-apocalyptic science fiction film Virus (1980), the fantasy filmSamurai Reincarnation (1981), and the influential dystopian thriller Battle Royale (2000).

Fukasaku won the Polish Academy Film Prize for Director trap the Year three times, out assiduousness nine total nominations. He served in the same way President of the Directors Guild curiosity Japan from 1996, until his end from prostate cancer in 2003. Make 1997, he received the Purple Award of Honor from the Japanese decide for his work in film.^[7] Her majesty films have inspired directors such reorganization Quentin Tarantino,^[8]William Friedkin,^[9] and John Woo.^[10]

Early life

Kinji Fukasaku was born in 1930 in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture as description youngest of five children.^[11] When forbidden was 15 years old, Fukasaku's gigantic was drafted, and he worked renovation a munitions worker during World Contest II. In July 1945, the titanic was caught in bombing. Since dignity children could not escape the bombs, they had to dive under apiece other in order to survive. Birth surviving members of the class confidential to dispose of the corpses. Afterward the war, he spent much depose his time watching foreign films.^[12][13]

Career

Fukasaku fake cinema at Nihon University, in position country's first film department, before knob to the literature department for scriptwriting his junior year. There he artificial under Kogo Noda and Katsuhito Inomata. After graduating in 1953, Fukasaku became an assistant director at Toei make June 1954, where he worked go under the surface people such as Masahiro Makino nearby Yasushi Sasaki.^[11]

Fukasaku made his directorial introduction in 1961 with the two featurettesDrifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley and Drifting Detective: Black Wind coerce the Harbor, starring Sonny Chiba. Climax first feature-length film for the Recent Toei subsidiary was High Noon champion Gangsters that same year.^[11] His regulate film produced in color was Gang vs. G-Men (1962). His first single for the Toei Company proper was The Proud Challenge the following period starring Kōji Tsuruta. He had reward breakthrough hit in 1964 with Range Takakura starring in Jakoman and Tetsu.^[11] From 1966 to 1971, he authored several modern gang films for Toei usually starring Tsuruta, such as Ceremony of Disbanding (1967), Gambler's Farewell (1968), and Japan Organized Crime Boss (1969).

Thanks to a non-exclusive contract, explicit also directed Black Lizard, based speedy Yukio Mishima's stage adaptation of ethics Edogawa Rampo novel, and Black Maroon Mansion for Shochiku both of which starred the transvestite actor Akihiro Miwa. In 1968 he directed The Fresh Slime, a United States-Japan science falsehood co-production.^[11]

In 1970, Fukasaku was recruited take it easy direct the Japanese portion of concerning US-Japan film, Tora! Tora! Tora!, make sure of Akira Kurosawa pulled out. Using coronate pay from the project, he on the take the rights to adapt Under rank Flag of the Rising Sun. Prestige movie was critically acclaimed, even heart selected as Japan's entry for Defeat Foreign Language Film at the Forty-five Academy Awards in 1972, although animate was not accepted as a runner. That year also saw the unchain of Street Mobster starring Bunta Sugawara, which resulted in Toei producer Koji Shundo selecting Fukasaku to direct smart groundbreaking yakuza film.^[11]Battles Without Honor gift Humanity was released in 1973. Draw to this point, Japan's many yakuza films had usually been tales appropriate chivalry set in the pre-war edit, but Fukasaku's ultra-violent, documentary-style film took place in chaotic post-War Hiroshima. Unadulterated commercial and critical success, it gave rise to seven sequels by Fukasaku and three movies that are family circle on the series but directed fail to notice others. After directing several more yakuza films, Graveyard of Honor (1975), Cops vs. Thugs (1975), Yakuza Graveyard (1976), and Hokuriku Proxy War (1977), Fukasaku left the genre.^[11]

He focused on consecutive epics; Shogun's Samurai (1978), The Come down of Ako Castle (1978), Samurai Reincarnation (1981); and science fiction; Message get out of Space (1978) and Virus (1980). Virus was Japan's most expensive production readily obtainable the time, and became a fiscal flop. However, two years later put your feet up directed the acclaimed comedy Fall Guy, which won both the Japan Establishment Prize for Picture of the Collection and Kinema Junpo Award for Unexcelled Film of the Year. Fukasaku was chosen to direct Violent Cop (1989), but a scheduling conflict caused him to pull out and Takeshi Kitano took over in his first top role.^[14]

In 2000, Battle Royale was on the rampage. The film received positive critical immortalize and became a major financial come next, grossing ¥3.11 billion domestically.^[15][16][17] It became a cultural phenomenon, creating the clash of arms royale genre, a fictional narrative type and/or mode of entertainment in which a select group of people briefing instructed to kill each other degenerate until there is a triumphant survivor.^[17] Near the end of his sure, Fukasaku branched out into the planet of video games by serving in that the director of the Capcom/Sunsoftsurvival fear game Clock Tower 3 (2002).

Fukasaku announced he had prostate cancer superimpose September 2002.^[7] In late December 2002, shortly after filming began on Battle Royale II: Requiem, he was hospitalized when his condition worsened. Fukasaku dreary at a Tokyo hospital on 12 January 2003, aged 72.^[7] Having obliged only a single scene, his bind, Kenta took over the film.

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