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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 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. Near the end of his life, Fukasaku branched out into the world of video games by serving as the director of the Capcom/Sunsoft survival horror game Clock Tower 3. Although the game sold poorly and received fair to lukewarm reviews, the game has been praised for its cinematic cutscenes, which some consider to be worth playing through the game in order to watch. Because he suffered from late stage prostate cancer during preparations for his final film, Battle Royale II: Requiem, the film's production was organized so that Fukasaku's son Kenta Fukasaku could take over the film's direction after he passed away. Filmography
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