Kenta Fukasaku

Kenta Fukasaku (深作 健太, Fukasaku Kenta, born September 15, 1972, in Tokyo) is a Japanese filmmaker and screenwriter. He is the son of film director Kinji Fukasaku and actress Sanae Nakahara.

He made his writing debut in the popular Japanese cult film Battle Royale, which his father directed.^[1] He wrote the screenplay to the sequel, Battle Royale II: Requiem, and took over directing when his father died of cancer. The film was released in Japan during the winter of 2003.

In 2005, he directed a film called Under the Same Moon (同じツキみている, Onaji tsuki o miteiru) which starred Battle Royale's Tarō Yamamoto. His adaptation of the manga Sukeban Deka was released in 2006, under the title Yo-Yo Girl Cop. He also directed horror film X-Cross.

• The Challenge (1982)

• Battle Royale (2000)
• Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)

• Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)
• Under the Same Moon (2005)
• Yo-Yo Girl Cop (2006)
• X-Cross (2007)
• Rebellion: The Killing Isle (2008)
• Black Rat (2010)
• We Can't Change the World. But, We Wanna Build a School in Cambodia. (2011)
• My Summertime Map (2013)
• Ken to Merii: Ameagari no Yozora ni (2013)

• Kenta Fukasaku at IMDb
• Kenta Fukasaku at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)