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Toshiya Fujita

Toshiya Fujita

Toshiya Fujita

1932-01-16

Pyongyang, North Korea

DIRECTING

Biography

Toshiya Fujita (藤田敏八 Fujita Toshiya, January 16, 1932 – August 29, 1997), also known as Shigeya Fujita (藤田繁矢 Fujita Shigeya), was a Japanese film director, film actor, and screenwriter. He is well-regarded in Japan for his youth films but is best known abroad for Lady Snowblood and Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance, films ironically not typical of his usual style.

Best known for:

Lady Snowblood

Tampopo

Funeral Parade of Roses

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

Fruits of Passion

Zigeunerweisen

Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo

Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71

I Hate But Love

Thirst for Love

Sweet Scent of Eros

Confessions of a Teenage Mother

Four Seasons: Natsuko

Double Bed

Temptation of Eros

Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye

Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting

The Days of No Return

Temptation of Angel

The Unspoiled Diamond

Wet Sand in August

Did the Red Bird Escape?

Red Paper Lantern

Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly

Revolver

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Filmography:

The Plateau Man (1961)
WORK AS:
Assistant Director Trainee
Gambler in the Sea (1961)
WORK AS:
Assistant Director
I Hate But Love (1962)
WORK AS:
Assistant Director
Glass-Hearted Johnny (1962)
WORK AS:
Assistant Director
The Gambling Monk (1963)
WORK AS:
Assistant Director
Tale on Tokai Chivalry (1964)
WORK AS:
Assistant Director
Hanayome wa jū go-sai (1964)
WORK AS:
Assistant Director
Song of Dawn (1965)
WORK AS:
Assistant Director

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The Swan Elegy (1966)
WORK AS:
Assistant Director
Thirst for Love (1967)
WORK AS:
Screenplay, Assistant Director
The Black Sheep (1967)
WORK AS:
Assistant Director
Juvenile Delinquent: Shout of the Rising Sun (1967)
WORK AS:
Screenplay, Director
Japan Year Zero (1969)
WORK AS:
Director
Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo (1970)
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
Step on the Gas! (1970)
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
A Young Man's Stronghold (1970)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer

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Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71 (1971)
WORK AS:
Director
Wet Sand in August (1971)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
August: Scent of Eros (1972)
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
Temptation of Eros (1972)
WORK AS:
Director
Lady Snowblood (1973)
6.3
WORK AS:
Director
Horror Theater Unbalance (1973)
WORK AS:
Director
Did the Red Bird Escape? (1973)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
Sweet Scent of Eros (1973)
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
A Woman Who Warns of Death (1973)
WORK AS:
Director
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)
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WORK AS:
Director
Red Paper Lantern (1974)
WORK AS:
Director
Younger Sister (1974)
WORK AS:
Director
Virgin Blues (1974)
WORK AS:
Director
Statue in Fire (1974)
WORK AS:
Director
Barefoot in Blue Jeans (1975)
WORK AS:
Director
Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye (1977)
APPEREAD AS:
Guard
Confessions of a Teenage Mother (1977)
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting (1977)
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
The Days of No Return (1978)
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
Dangerous Liaisons (1978)
WORK AS:
Director
Temptation of Angel (1979)
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
White Love (1979)
WORK AS:
Screenplay
Eighteen Years, to the Sea (1979)
WORK AS:
Director
Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly (1979)
WORK AS:
Director
Zigeunerweisen (1980)
5.3
APPEREAD AS:
Toyojiro Aochi
Four Seasons: Natsuko (1980)
APPEREAD AS:
Audition Director
Fruits of Passion (1981)
3.8
APPEREAD AS:
Les clients
Play it, Boogie-Woogie (1981)
WORK AS:
Director
The Unspoiled Diamond (1982)
WORK AS:
Director
Double Bed (1983)
WORK AS:
Director
The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel (1984)
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
Tampopo (1985)
6.7
APPEREAD AS:
Man with Toothache
Spring Bell (1985)
APPEREAD AS:
Tomio Murata
Beyond the Shining Sea (1986)
WORK AS:
Director
Revolver (1988)
WORK AS:
Director
The Games Teachers Play (1992)
APPEREAD AS:
Vice Principal
A Brief Message from the Heart (1995)
APPEREAD AS:
Professor Saito
Wet Hot Sake (1996)
APPEREAD AS:
Morio Mononobe
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! VI: The Hero (1996)
APPEREAD AS:
Kanamori

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