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Filmmaker · Japan

Kinji Fukasaku

Died in 2003

Kinji Fukasaku was born on 3 July 1930 in Mito. During the war, he worked in a munitions factory that was bombed, and had to help the survivors recover the bodies of his comrades. A graduate of Nihon University in 1953, he joined Tōei as an assistant and made his first films there in 1961. In 2000, one of his last films stirred a controversy that was taken up in the Diet. He died of cancer in Tokyo on 12 January 2003, after beginning the shooting of a sequel that his son Kenta completed.

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