Kinji Fukasaku (1930–2003) was a Japanese film director known for gritty, often violent films including yakuza pictures and the controversial cult hit Battle Royale (2000).

He is known for a rough, documentary-like visual style, handheld camera work, social critique in his films, and a career spanning postwar Japan into the early 2000s.

Two DeBaser reviews cover Kinji Fukasaku's range: a positive take on his apocalyptic sci-fi Fukkatsu no hi and a critical appraisal of The Geisha House's portrayal of geisha. The reviews note production scale, Cold War themes, and cultural inaccuracies.

For:Fans and students of Japanese cinema, sci-fi and cult films; readers interested in cultural representation in film.

 It was 1980 when film producer Haruki Kudokawa, still one of the big names in the industry in his country today, decided to revive Japanese cinema with this science fiction film, which at the time was the most expensive movie ever distributed in the history of Japanese cinema.

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 The Geisha House is a cynical and derogatory film that describes the world of geisha in a very coarse and error-filled manner.

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