Kinji fukasaku biography template

*anese film director and screenwriter (1930–2003)

Kinji *asaku (*anese: 深作欣二, Hepburn: *asaku Kinji, 3 July 1930:– 12 January 2003) was trig *anese film director and poet. Known for his "broad supernatural and innovative filmmaking", *asaku assumed in many different genres with styles, but was best systematic for his gritty yakuza flicks, typified by the Battles Externally Honor and Humanity series (1973–1976).

According to the Berkeley Estrangement Museum and Pacific Film Account, "his turbulent energy and fighting times extreme violence express pure cynical critique of social attachment and genuine sympathy for those left out of *an's postwar prosperity." He used a cinema verite-inspired shaky camera technique export many of his films proud the early 1970s.

*asaku wrote deliver directed over 60 films mid 1961 and 2003.

Some Concoction sources have *ociated him affair the *anese New Wave momentum of the '60s and '70s, but this belies his lucrative success. His works include decency *anese portion of the Screenland war film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), jidaigeki such as Shogun's Samurai (1978), the space theater Message from Space (1978), blue blood the gentry post-apocalyptic science fiction film Virus (1980), the fantasy film Samurai Reincarnation (1981), and the forceful dystopian thriller Battle Royale (2000).

*asaku won the *an Academy Integument Prize for Director of authority Year three times, out nominate nine total nominations.

He served as President of the Administration Guild of *an from 1996, until his death from prostatic cancer in 2003. In 1997, he received the Purple Trim of Honor from the *anese government for his work fasten film. His films have exciting directors such as Quentin Filmmaker, William Friedkin, and John Woo.

Early life

Kinji *asaku was born engage 1930 in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture as the youngest of pentad children.

When he was 15 years old, *asaku's cl* was drafted, and he worked tempt a munitions worker during Planet War II. In July 1945, the cl* was caught tag bombing. Since the children could not escape the bombs, they had to dive under glut other in order to clear-thinking. The surviving members of description cl* had to dispose identical the corpses.

After the warfare, he spent much of enthrone time watching foreign films.

Career

*asaku artificial cinema at Nihon University, hamper the country's first film turn, before switching to the data department for scriptwriting his inferior year. There he studied misstep Kogo Noda and Katsuhito Inomata.

After graduating in 1953, *asaku became an *istant director console Toei in June 1954, whirl location he worked under people much as Masahiro Makino and Yasushi Sasaki.

*asaku made his directorial inauguration in 1961 with the fold up featurettes Drifting Detective: Tragedy suspend the Red Valley and Drifting Detective: Black Wind in description Harbor, starring Sonny Chiba.

Culminate first feature-length film for decency New Toei subsidiary was High Noon for Gangsters that selfsame year. His first film up with in color was Gang vs. G-Men (1962). His first crust for the Toei Company defensible was The Proud Challenge class following year starring Kōji Tsuruta. He had his breakthrough thrash in 1964 with Ken Takakura starring in Jakoman and Tetsu.

From 1966 to 1971, blooper created several modern gang pictures for Toei usually starring Tsuruta, such as Ceremony of Disbanding (1967), Gambler's Farewell (1968), station *an Organized Crime Boss (1969).

Thanks to a non-exclusive contract, without fear also directed Black Lizard, homespun on Yukio Mishima's stage modifying of the Edogawa Rampo innovative, and Black Rose Mansion crave Shochiku both of which marked the transves*e actor Akihiro Miwa.

In 1968 he directed The Green Slime, a United States-*an science fiction co-production.

In 1970, *asaku was recruited to direct goodness *anese portion of another US-*an film, Tora! Tora! Tora!, afterwards Akira Kurosawa pulled out. Set on fire his pay from the attempt, he bought the rights appendix adapt Under the Flag delineate the Rising Sun.

The screen was critically acclaimed, even essence selected as *an's entry choose Best Foreign Language Film finish even the 45th Academy Awards pulse 1972, although it was call for accepted as a nominee. Turn this way year also saw the free of Street Mobster starring Bunta Sugawara, which resulted in Toei producer Koji Shundo selecting *asaku to direct a groundbreaking yakuza film.

Battles Without Honor trip Humanity was released in 1973. Up to this point, *an's many yakuza films had generally been tales of chivalry site in the pre-war period, on the other hand *asaku's ultra-violent, do*entary-style film took place in chaotic post-War Metropolis. A commercial and critical go well, it gave rise to heptad sequels by *asaku and link movies that are based punchup the series but directed saturate others.

After directing several excellent yakuza films, Graveyard of Honor (1975), Cops vs. Thugs (1975), Yakuza Graveyard (1976), and Hokuriku Proxy War (1977), *asaku weigh the genre.

He focused on real epics; Shogun's Samurai (1978), The Fall of Ako Castle (1978), Samurai Reincarnation (1981); and body of laws fiction; Message from Space (1978) and Virus (1980).

Virus was *an's most expensive production dead even the time, and became a-one financial flop. However, two lifetime later he directed the important comedy Fall Guy, which won both the *an Academy Award for Picture of the Harvest and Kinema Junpo Award all for Best Film of the Assemblage. *asaku was chosen to handle Violent Cop (1989), but top-notch scheduling conflict caused him object to pull out and Takeshi Kitano took over in his crowning directorial role.

In 2000, Battle Royale was released.

The film commonplace positive critical praise and became a major financial success, grossing ¥3.11 billion domestically. It became a cultural phenomenon, creating depiction battle royale genre, a fanciful narrative genre and/or mode bad deal entertainment in which a carefully selected group of people are apt to kill each other limit until there is a conquering survivor.

Near the end entrap his life, *asaku branched drive away into the world of videotape games by serving as justness director of the Capcom/Sunsoft aliveness horror game Clock Tower 3 (2002).

*asaku announced he had endocrine cancer in September 2002. Pointed late December 2002, shortly care for filming began on Battle Royale II: Requiem, he was hospitalized when his condition worsened.

*asaku died at a Tokyo sickbay on 12 January 2003, elderly 72. Having directed only adroit single scene, his son, Kenta took over the film.

Filmography

Episodes preceding television series

Key Hunter (1968) - Episodes 1 and 2
Hissatsu Shikakenin (1972) - Episodes 1, 2, and 24
G-Men '75 (1975-1979) - Episodes 16, 20, 85, enjoin 354
The Yagyu Conspiracy (1978) - Episode 1
Shadow Warriors (1981) - Season 2, Episode 1

Video game

Awards

1974 Kinema Junpo Reader's Choice Give for Best Film - Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1976 Posh Ribbon Award for Best Vicepresident - Graveyard of Honor, Cops vs.

Thugs
1982 Hochi Film Honour for Best Film - Fall Guy
1983 *an Academy Prize stingy Director of the Year - Fall Guy, Dotonbori River
1983 *an Academy Prize for Picture introduce the Year - Fall Guy
1983 Blue Ribbon Award for Superlative Film - Fall Guy
1983 Morose Ribbon Award for Best Self-opinionated - Fall Guy
1983 Mainichi Pick up Award for Best film - Fall Guy
1983 Mainichi Film Prize 1 for Best Director - Fall Guy
1983 Mainichi Film Award Reader's Choice Award - Fall Guy
1983 Kinema Junpo Reader's Choice Grant for Best Film - Fall Guy
1983 Kinema Junpo Reader's Condescending Award for Best Director - Fall Guy
1983 Kinema Junpo Reader's Choice Award for Best Album - Fall Guy
1985 *an Establishment Prize for Director of nobleness Year - Legend of representation Eight Samurai, Shanghai Rhapsody
1987 *an Academy Prize for Director make merry the Year - House oversight Fire
1987 *an Academy Prize realize Picture of the Year - House on Fire
1987 Kinema Junpo Reader's Choice Award for Unconditional Film - House on Fire
1993 Yokohama Film Festival Special Guerdon - career
1994 Nikkan Sports Fell Award for Best Director - Crest of Betrayal
1995 *an Institute Prize for Director of picture Year - Crest of Betrayal
1995 *an Academy Prize for Charge of the Year - Crest of Betrayal
1999 Nikkan Sports Release Award for Best Director - The Geisha House
2001 *an Institution Prize Popularity Award - Battle Royale
2001 *an Academy Prize assistance Director of the Year (Nomination) - Battle Royale
2001 *an Institution Prize for Picture of glory Year (Nomination) - Battle Royale
2001 Blue Ribbon Award for Utter Film - Battle Royale
2001 Sitges Film Festival for Best Skin (Nomination) - Battle Royale
2001 San Sebastián Horror & Fantasy Pick up Festival Audience Award for Get the better of Feature Film - Battle Royale
2003 *an Academy Prize Special Confer - career
2003 Blue Ribbon Reward Special Award - career
2004 Mainichi Film Award Special Award - career

References

External links

*an portal
Film portal
Biography portal

Media related to Kinji *asaku at Wikimedia Commons
Kinji *asaku at IMDb
Kinji *asaku at decency *anese Movie Database (in *anese)
Interview with Kinji *asaku at Middle of the night Eye