Kinji Fukasaku — Director (64)

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Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)
バトル・ロワイアルII 鎮魂歌
director: Kenta Fukasaku / Kinji Fukasaku actor: Shugo Oshinari / Ai Maeda …
other title: Battle Royale II - Requiem / Battle Royale II …
It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.

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Hokuriku Proxy War (1977)
北陸代理戦争
director: 深作欣二 actor: 松方弘树 / 野川由美子 …
other title: 北陸代理戦争 / 北陆代理战争 …
A Yakuza group from Osaka with dreams of national dominance moves into the snowy Hokuriku region, sparking a bloody turf war with local gangs.

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Graveyard of Honor (1975) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
仁義の墓場
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Tetsuya Watari / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: La tomba dell'onore / Le Cimetière de la morale …
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.

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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss (1976) IMDb TMDB
新仁義なき戦い 組長最後の日
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Chieko Matsubara …
other title: 新仁義なき戦い 組長最後の日 / Nouveau combat sans code d'honneur 3 : les Derniers Jours du boss
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars.

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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss (1975) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
新仁義なき戦い 組長の首
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Meiko Kaji …
other title: 新仁義なき戦い 組長の首 / Nouveau combat sans code d'honneur 2 : La Tête du boss …
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are battling for territorial rights and drug smuggling. The Owada sends their man, Tetsu, and his friend Shuji to kill the Kyoei boss. With the promise of fame and riches, Shuji takes the fall and goes to jail for 7 years. But when he's released, he discovers that he and Tetsu have been all but forgotten by the Owada. Feeling betrayed, Shuji takes matters into his own hands and becomes an unsuspecting pawn in an internal conflict and an assassination attempt on the Owada boss. And now angered, Shuji seeks revenge...

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Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983)
里見八犬伝
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Hiroko Yakushimaru / Hiroyuki Sanada …
other title: Die Legende von den acht Samurai / La Légende des huit samouraïs …
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu. In the process of trying to capture her, the clan murders her entire family, but Princess Shizu escapes their clutches. She enlists the aid of eight samurai warriors, possessors of powerful magic crystal, led by Dosetsu (Sonny Chiba!) to help rescue the remaining members of her court and revenge her family. Along the way, they must fight undead warriors, evil spirits, poisonous beauties and a giant centipede.

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Shogun's Samurai (1978)
柳生一族の陰謀
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Sonny Chiba …
other title: Im Schatten des Shogun / Le Samourai et le Shogun …
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga become bitter rivals for the shogunate, and the land is split into factions, eventually erupting into warfare. Iemitsu's mentor, his fencing instructor Yagyu, is fixated upon securing Iemitsu the shogunate and ends up betraying everyone, even his own family, in pursuit of the goal.

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973)
仁義なき戦い 代理戦争
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Takeshi Katō …
other title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity - Proxy War / 仁義なき戦い 代理戦争 …
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.

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Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers (1972) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
人斬り与太 狂犬三兄弟
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Kunie Tanaka …
other title: 人斬り与太 狂犬三兄弟 / Okita le pourfendeur : les Trois Frères chiens fous …
The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent. He tries to start a new life with his two ”brothers” but can’t seem to escape old affiliations

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
仁義なき戦い 頂上作戦
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 4: Police Tactics / 仁義なき戦い 頂上作戦 …
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
仁義なき戦い 広島死闘篇
other title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity - Deadly Fight in Hiroshima / Combat sans code d'honneur 2 : Qui sera le boss à Hiroshima ? …
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.

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Yakuza Graveyard (1976) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
やくざの墓場 くちなしの花
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Tetsuya Watari / Meiko Kaji …
other title: やくざの墓場 くちなしの花 / Tombe de yakuza et fleur de gardénia …
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.

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The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)
赤穂城断絶
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Sonny Chiba …
other title: A Queda do Castelo Ako / Last of the Ako Clan …
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.

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If You Were Young: Rage (1970) IMDb TMDB
君が若者なら
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Tetsuo Ishidate / Gin Maeda …
other title: 君が若者なら / Si tu étais jeune
If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead, despite their willingness to try. Then one hits upon a plane - to work together to save for a dump truck and thus become independent contractors and be their own bosses at last. Ultimately life presents obstacles: jail for one, violence at the hands of the police for another and a girlfriend and subsequent children for the third. An early Kinji Fukasaku gem that imports the freewheeling style of the French New Wave and the hip detachment of American noir.

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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 (1974) WikiData IMDb TMDB
新仁義なき戦い
other title: Nouveau combat sans code d'honneur 1 / 新仁義なき戦い …
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.