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	Kinji Fukasaku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kinji_Fukasaku (273 words)

	Kinji Fukasaku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fukasaku joined film studio Toei Co. in 1953 and became involved in the very successful "War Without a Code" yakuza movie series in 1973.
		Fukasaku, who was married to actress Sanae Nakahara, had headed the Director's Guild of Japan since 1996.
		Fukasaku, a native of Mito in the Ibaraki Prefecture, announced he had cancer in September, but was working on a new film in December when his condition deteriorated and he was hospitalized.
	www.mst3kinfo.com /rolodex/Fukasaku.html (256 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Kinji Fukasaku
		Kinji Fukasaku started work on a sequel to Battle Royale, Battle Royale II: Requiem in 2003 but died of bone cancer on January 12, 2003, after shooting only one scene.
		Fukasaku is best known in Japan for attacking, with neo-realist zeal, the yakuza organized crime genre, discarding its antiquated chivalric pretenses in favor of brutal depictions of the back-stabbing and drug-addled moral squalor that characterizes actual mob life.
		Fukasaku weds his lurid gangland tableaux to a thrilling, kinetic style in which jarring still-frame impositions, scrambled-up film stocks, and colorful explosions of text are punctuated by frequent crimson splatters of gore.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kinji-Fukasaku (1338 words)

	village voice > film > by Chuck Stephens
		Fukasaku died in Tokyo on Sunday, January 12; his son Kenta, screenwriter of both the original and the sequel, will complete his father's final movie.
		Painful though it is to say so at the moment, it would do Fukasaku's memory a profound disservice not to recall that, of all the torn-from-the-headlines flourishes he employed, clearly—as belied by the titles of two of his darkest thug-operas, Graveyard of Honor and Yakuza Graveyard—the obituary was his favorite lyrical mode.
		As for the favors Fukasaku did for his fans, and for Japanese film culture, and the world's, we'll be repaying him forever still.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0303/stephens.php (420 words)

	Kinji Fukasaku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kinji Fukasaku (Japanese : 深作欣二) (3 July, 1930 - 12 January, 2003) was a Japan ese film actor, writer and director.
		It was the year the festival paid homage to Kinji Fukasaku with a large retrospective of his work,...
		Kinji Fukasaku is the director of many films on DVD and VHS including Battle Royale, Triple Cross, The, Yakuza Graveyard, Yakuza Papers, Graveyard of Honour,...
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Kinji_Fukasaku.html (423 words)

	Midnight Eye focus: Kinji Fukasaku - truth, hope and violence
		Fukasaku made his debut in 1961, in a strongly regulated studio system where actors and directors were tied to the studios by contracts and individual artistry meant next to nothing (providing an insight into why Akira Kurosawa never received the slightest acclaim while at the same being celebrated in the West).
		Strongly inspired by Italian neo-realism, Fukasaku set his stories against a backdrop of ruined cities, slums and fl market trading, an everyday chaos that was a strong contrast with the message of change and growth the government tried to spread to its citizens.
		Despite this blatant challenge, or perhaps because of it, Kinji Fukasaku is held in high esteem by the current wave of young genre directors (even outside Japan, as witnessed by Quentin Tarantino inviting the veteran director to the set of Jackie Brown).
	www.midnighteye.com /features/focus_fukasaku.shtml (1948 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: After Atom
		When Kinji Fukasaku was 15, the war his Japan had been waging suddenly ended in the detonation of an atomic bomb.
		But, while Fukasaku is praised by Japanese critics and idolized by filmmakers like Takeshi Kitano and Quentin Tarantino, his many films are largely unknown in America, and only one of them is widely available on video.
		Fukasaku's yakuza series is well-represented in the AFS' retrospective, which includes 1973's Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Oct. 11), widely considered Fukasaku's masterpiece and one of the best Japanese films of all time.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-09-28/screens_feature3.html (656 words)

	Battle Royale
		Kinji Fukasaku, a mild-mannered, white-haired, 70-year old gentleman, is not the sort of filmmaker who normally has his finger on the throbbing pulse of youth.
		But Fukasaku was a product of the hellish World War 2 era, and in interviews he has said that the recent wave of youth murders in Japan resonated with his experience: "Many infamous crimes, like the Kobe beheading case, were committed by 15-year-olds.
		When Fukasaku came to Los Angeles for the first of the American Cinematheque's popular Japanese Outlaw Masters programs in 1997, he was invited to the set of Jackie Brown to hang out with a long-time fan, director Quentin Tarantino.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Island/3102/battle.htm (1297 words)

	kinjifukasaku
		Fukasaku’s pyrotechnic gangster movies suggest a methedrine-fueled hybrid of Fuller/Scorsese/Woo, with the social conscience of early Visconti.
		For nearly 40 years, Fukasaku has managed to balance the demands of genre filmmaking with a fierce concern for political and social themes – many of his greatest yakuza films are set during the chaotic post-WWII years, using his violent underworld hitmen and gang bosses to reflect the upheaval changing all levels of Japanese society.
		Tsuruta was a traditional actor of chivalrous roles, and Fukasaku uses this to heighten the already white-hot tension between the dwindling numbers of ethical outlaws and the emerging faceless, dog-eat-dog gangs.
	www.egyptiantheatre.com /archive1999/2001/kinjifukasaku.htm (1567 words)

	[KFCC] Black Rose Mansion Review
		Review: Kinji Fukasaku's "Black Rose Mansion" proves to be as alluring and mysterious as the female songstress that helms the films cast.
		Fukasaku laces the entire movie with such subdued colors, that scenes like flashbacks and dreams, which are presented in bright, monochromatic moments (typically red, blue or green) stand out in a most vivid way.
		Fukasaku tells a good and slightly bizarre story, without making it too convoluted with strange imagery and non-linear direction.
	www.kfccinema.com /reviews/drama/blackrosemansion/blackrosemansion.html (626 words)

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		Kinji Fukasaku was born in 1930, a year before Japan invaded China.
		For the young Fukasaku, the years to come would be spent living in the shadow of a defeated warrior society, where honor had meant everything.
		Fukasaku is credited with redefining the yakuza (Japanese gangster) films and giving the genre a raw brutality it had been lacking.
	www.wweek.com /html2/screena032101.html (670 words)

	Static Multimedia - 'Mixing Blood and Metaphors' with Kinji Fukasaku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fukasaku was a blunt social commentator with a penchant for mixing blood and metaphors within traditional genres.
		Fukasaku, a man who came of age during the war years, was never happy with this turn of events.
		Fukasaku's style in both of these films is fluid, direct and enormously kinesthetic.
	www.staticmultimedia.com /content/film/features/feature_1105034483 (1166 words)

	Cinegeek: All things film, all things geek!
		Fukasaku continued to take risks and make exciting films long after other directors would have decided to “play it safe” or fade away into retirement.
		Fukasaku employs a striking technique of washing entire frames in bright colors, such as yellow.
		There is an interesting interview with Kinji Fukasaku conducting before his death discussing the film and comparing it to “Battle Royale”.
	www.cinegeek.com /dvd_archive/rage.htm (653 words)

	Battle Royale 2: Requiem Review (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Veteran director Kinji Fukasaku died during the making of Requiem, his son Kenta taking up the reins.
		Fukasaku uses that jerky combat photography that Spielberg pioneered in his war epic, and the action is certainly excitingly directed.
		Son of the late, great Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku who scripted his father’s satire Battle Royale and took over directing the sequel, Battle Royale 2: Requiem when Kinji died in 2003.
	www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=922 (608 words)

	Director Kinji Fukasaku - MoviesOnline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kinji Fukasaku was one of Japan's greatest and most hard working directors.
		In December of 2003, Fukasaku declared he was dying of cancer, but he would not let that stop him from directing Battle Royale II.
		With the release of Battle Royale, Fukasaku is finally beginning to recieve the recognition he deserves in the west for being a pioneer and legend of film.
	www.moviesonline.ca /details_director.php?director=55 (789 words)

	Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When Fukasaku Kinji started on the sequel to BATTLE ROYALE (his sixtieth film) he knew he would have to fight a battle of a very different order; he had been diagnosed with cancer.
		Fukasaku Kinji's last "battle" has a clear message: adults fight wars, but it's always the children who have to pay the price.
		Fukasaku Kinji (1930-2003) made his debut as a director in 1963 with GREEn IN BROAD DAYLIGHT and has since then made numerous films.
	www.asianfilms.org /japan/battleroyale2.html (370 words)

	Kinji Fukasaku: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kinji Fukasaku (深作欣二 Fukasaku Kinji) (3 July, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Yakuza (from japanese or), also known as gokud, are members of traditional organized crime groups in japan]...
		The city of hiroshima (; -shi) is the capital of hiroshima prefecture, and the largest city in the chugoku region of western japan....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ki/kinji_fukasaku.htm (699 words)

	battleroyalefilm.com
		On September 2002, Kinji Fukasaku held a press conference where he made two major announcements: He was dying of bone cancer, and, refusing to let that hold him back, he was going to direct Battle Royale II.
		Unfortunately, Kinji Fukasaku's condition deteriorated, and on December 21 he was hospitalized.
		Kinji Fukasaku passed away on January 12, 2003 from bone cancer, in the midst of filming the sequel to Battle Royale.
	www.battleroyalefilm.net /sequel (709 words)

	The Yakuza Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fukasaku, perhaps best known in the West for his bloody schoolboy fantasy "Battle Royale," entered young adulthood in the rubble of Japan, after the United States unleashed its A-bombs.
		Fukasaku was a member of the "fl-market generation" for whom authority -- the emperor or U.S. occupiers -- meant nothing.
		Fukasaku's son Kenta, also a director, notes that the stars of "Yakuza" serve as narrative catalysts, while "the real focus" is on the gangs' foot soldiers, who die in droves.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000745177 (1059 words)

	TIME Asia Print Page: Arts -- 'Children Have No Hope for the Future' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fukasaku: I heard last June that there was a movement in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to establish a bill to control TV programs that are harmful to youth.
		That's one cause of an increase in juvenile delinquency.
		Fukasaku: I am 70 so my point of view, the way I see things, must be very different than 15-year-olds.
	www.time.com /time/asia/arts/printout/0,9788,96905,00.html (1284 words)

	ciff2004b (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Recently known to American audiences for the recent action horror hit Battle Royale, the late Kinji Fukasaku is better known and appreciated in his country of origin for his contributions to and re-envisioning of the Japanese gangster genre also known as Yakuza films.
		Peopled with characters who are neither simply "good guys" or "bad guys" Fukasaku's films offer a starling mix of comedy, drama, explosive violence, sentiment and at times even terror, but they do not offer a simple philosophic dissection of an era that was, for Fukasaku, experienced first hand.
		Fukasaku documents what was, truly using the lie of art to tell the truth.
	www.imaginedat.net /ciff2004b.htm (649 words)

	Scope > Personer > Kinji Fukasaku > Biografi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Japanske Fukasaku nåede i sit 40 år lange virke at opnå en position som en af sit lands mest betydningsfulde instruktører og afsluttede fornemt karrieren med det kontroversielle hit Battle Royale (2000).
		Fukasakus yakaza-film blev i stigende grad karakteriseret ved en udviskning af skellet mellem rigtigt og forkert, ligesom det kan være svært at skelne forbrydere fra politimænd.
		Fukasaku fortsatte med at udforske yakuza-miljøet, hvilket kulminerede i filmen 'Graveyard of Honour' (1976).
	www.scope.dk /printvenlig.php?persID=20328 (331 words)

	Dossier : kinji fukasaku (1) - dvdrama
		Kinji Fukasaku signe ici rien moins que son soixante et unième film, et seulement son sixième à être distribué chez nous.
		Kinji Fukasaku opte assez tôt pour la carrière cinématographique en suivant des études à l'université Nichidai avant d'intégrer la Toei (l'un des plus importants studios japonais avec la Toho, la Daiei et la Nikkatsu) en 1953, à l'âge de 23 ans.
		Kinji Fukasaku n'adapte pourtant pas officellement l'oeuvre de l'illustre auteur, mais plus précisément la pièce de théâtre qui en fut tirée, créée par un autre monstre sacré de la littérature nippone, Yukio Mishima.
	www.dvdrama.com /news.php?3454 (3390 words)

	Sympathy for the Underdog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sympathy for the Underdog (Bakuto gaijin butai) is a 1971 Japanese yakuza film, directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Koji Tsuruta Noboru Ando.
		This film was director Kinji Fukasaku's (Battle Royale, The Yakuza Papers) last film featuring Koji Tsuruta as the main character.
		In the film Koji Tsuruta plays a hard boiled Yakuza boss, Gunji, who's yakuza gang is driven out of Yokohama by a powerful gang from Tokyo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sympathy_for_the_Underdog (205 words)

	FinalManga - Manga News et article : Kinji Fukasaku, le maitre battle royale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kinji Fukasaku est née en 1930 et a suivi des études à l'université Nichidai.
		Kinji Fukasaku avec M. Ken Takakura créent en 1964 le film « Okami To Buta To Ningen » qui est un réel début pour la délimitation de son style.
		Kinji Fukasaku est alors vu comme le cinéaste qui n'a « pas froid aux yeux », il crée des films sans se soucier vraiment de ce qu'ils pourraient avoir comme impact tant que son message passe.
	www.finalmanga.net /anime-manga/article209.html (725 words)

	[KFCC] Shogun Samurai Review
		This "What If?" script penned by Fukasaku along with Hiro Matsuda and Tatsuo Nogami puts interesting spins on what is known about this bit of history that has been told time and time again.
		Kinji Fukasaku's skill at drama and conspiracy shines in SHOGUN'S SAMURAI.
		It's really important to watch the whole movie in one sitting, despite a few parts that some may find slow and consider taking a break on, the impact of the ending is inevitably dulled by consuming the film in smaller portions.
	www.kfccinema.com /reviews/swordplay/shogunsamurai/shogunsamurai.html (1053 words)

	Graveyard of Honor (1975) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kinji Fukasaku was the 70s master of bloody Japanese Yakuza films.
		I think Fukasaku perfectly shows you that, but because of his shaky camera and the length of only 95 minutes, this version is not as good as Miike's remake.
		Fukasaku's film is also very good, enjoyable and has a few similarities to Miike's version.
	members.aol.com /grindhousereview/goh1.html (732 words)

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