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Quick facts for kids Kinji Fukasaku | |
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| Born | (1930-07-03)3 July 1930 Mito, Ibaraki, Japan |
| Died | 12 January 2003(2003-01-12) (aged 72) Tokyo, Japan |
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| Years active | 1961–2003 |
| Title | President of the Directors Guild of Japan |
| Term | 1996–2003 |
| Predecessor | Nagisa Ōshima |
| Successor | Yoji Yamada |
| Spouse(s) | Sanae Nakahara |
| Children | Kenta Fukasaku |
| Awards | Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year 1982 Dotonbori River & Fall Guy 1987 House on Fire 1995 Crest of Betrayal |
Kinji Fukasaku(深作 欣二, Fukasaku Kinji, 3 July 1930 – 12 January 2003) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Fukasaku worked in many different genres and styles, but was best known for his gritty yakuza films, typified by the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series (1973–1976).
Fukasaku wrote and directed over 60 films between 1961 and 2003. Some Western sources have associated him with the Japanese New Wave movement of the '60s and '70s, but this belies his commercial success. His works include the Japanese portion of the Hollywood war film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), jidaigeki such as Shogun's Samurai (1978), the space operaMessage from Space (1978), the
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Kinji Fukasaku joined the Toei Film Distribution Company in 1953, at the age of 23. During the 1950s, Japanese cinema enjoyed a tremendous growth, and by the latter half of the decade it revelled in a new golden age commensurate with that of the 1930s. The most important directors of the era can be divided into three groups: the pre-war masters Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Tomu Uchida; the young Turks Akira Kurosawa and Keisuke Kinoshita who emerged soon after the war; and a new generation, working in a wide variety of genres, including Yasuzo Masumura, Tai Kato, Kenji Misumi, Ko Nakahira, Tadashi Sawashima, Seijun Suzuki, Kihachi Okamoto, and Shohei Imamura. By the late 1950s, the Japanese film industry was dominated by six studios: Toho, Shochiku, Daiei, Toei, Shintoho, and Nikkatsu, and new talent seemed to burst out of every studio. Nagisa Oshimahad made his first film in 1959. In 1960, Toei, the box-office leader, launched New Toei, a second production and distribution arm, and the following year, Kinji Fukasaku made his first film.
Unfortunately, the Japanese cinema-going audience had peaked in 1958, and the financial base of the studios began to erode. Shin Toho went bankrupt in 1961. The broader fortunes of the film industry followed this collaps
Unfortunately, the Japanese cinema-going audience had peaked in 1958, and the financial base of the studios began to erode. Shin Toho went bankrupt in 1961. The broader fortunes of the film industry followed this collaps