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Kinji Fukasaku has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2000s.
Recurring themes

Body of Lies
2008
Action · Drama

The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008
Action · Crime

Naked Weapon
2002
Action · Drama

Blood Diamond
2006
Drama · Thriller

Kaminey
2009
Action · Crime

The Towering Inferno
1974
Action · Drama

Strike
1925
Drama

The Street Fighter
1974
Action · Crime

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Dir. Kinji Fukasaku · With Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Takeshi Kitano

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Dir. Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku, Richard Fleischer · With Martin Balsam, So Yamamura, Jason Robards

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
Dir. Kinji Fukasaku · With Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Kunie Tanaka
A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. The mission is successful, and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a gooey green substance that mutates into one-eyed tentacled monsters that feed off electricity. Soon the station is crawling with them, and people are being zapped left and right!
Dir. Kinji Fukasaku, Katsuhiko Taguchi · With Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel
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.
Dir. Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku · With Shugo Oshinari, Ai Maeda, Tatsuya Fujiwara