The Fall of Ako Castle

Kinji Fukasaku was a Japanese film actor, screenwriter, and best known as a celebrated and innovative filmmaker. He was born in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, and died in Tokyo, from prostate cancer. He is known for directing samurai period and yakuza films such as Battles Without Honor and Humanity , the... Japanese portion of the Hollywood film Tora! Tora! Tora! , and his final film Battle Royale . He is also known for his trademark shaky camera technique, which he used extensively in many of his films since the early 1970s. When he was 15 years old, Fukasaku's class was drafted, and he worked as a munitions worker during World War II. In July 1945, the class was caught in artillery fire. Since the children could not escape artillery fire, they had to dive under each other in order to survive. The surviving members of the class had to dispose of the corpses. Fukasaku realized that the Japanese government lied about World War II at that point; Fukasaku had a burning hatred of adults in general for a long time.
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