Kinji Fukasaku

Features

Part 5: The Return of the Auteur

By PopMatters Staff

That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists. [22 June 2007]

Reviews

Battle Royale (2002)

By Jack Patrick Rodgers

Battle Royale is ultraviolence with a bleeding heart; A Clockwork Orange meets My So-Called Life. [20 December 2006]

Fall Guy (Kamata Koshin-Kyoku) (1982)

By Bill Gibron

Kinji Fukasaku's striking compositions remind us that the world of filmmaking is draped in a charade, an expertly plotted manipulation. [2 February 2005]