*anese filmmaker and screenwriter (born 1972)

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

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Filmography
  • 2.1 Actor
  • 2.2 Screenwriter
  • 2.3 Director
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Biography

He made his writing debut in the popular *anese cult film Battle Royale, which his father directed. 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 *an 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 *le Yo-Yo Girl Cop. He also directed horror film X-Cross.

Filmography

Actor

• The Challenge (1982)

Screenwriter

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

Director

• 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)

References

External links

• Kenta *asaku at IMDb
• Kenta *asaku at the *anese Movie Database (in *anese)