Toshiya Fujita
Born: 1932-01-16 in Pyongyang, North Korea
Died: 1997-08-29
Known For: 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.
Filmography
1996
- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero as Kanamori
- Wet Hot Sake as Morio Mononobe
1995
- A Brief Message from the Heart as Professor Saito
- Secret Liaisons
1994
1992
- NIGHT HEAD
- The Games Teachers Play as Vice Principal
- Pachinko Graffiti
- Gorotsuki
1988
- Revolver ... (Director)
1987
1986
- Beyond the Shining Sea ... (Director)
1985
- Tampopo as Man with Toothache
- Spring Bell as Tomio Murata
1984
- The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel ... (Director)
1983
- Double Bed ... (Director)
1982
- The Unspoiled Diamond ... (Director)
1981
- Play it, Boogie-Woogie ... (Director)
- Fruits of Passion as Customer
1980
- Zigeunerweisen as Toyojiro Aochi
- Four Seasons: Natsuko as Audition Director
1979
- Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly ... (Director)
- Eighteen Years, to the Sea ... (Director)
- Temptation of Angel ... (Director)
- White Love ... (Screenplay)
1978
- Dangerous Liaisons ... (Director)
- The Days of No Return ... (Director)
1977
- Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting ... (Director)
- Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye as Guard
- Confessions of a Teenage Mother ... (Director)
1975
- Barefoot in Blue Jeans ... (Director)
1974
- Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance ... (Director)
- Red Paper Lantern ... (Director)
- Statue in Fire ... (Director)
- Younger Sister ... (Director)
- Virgin Blues ... (Director)
1973
- Horror Theater Unbalance ... (Director)
- Lady Snowblood ... (Director)
- Sweet Scent of Eros ... (Director)
- Did the Red Bird Escape? ... (Director)
- A Woman Who Warns of Death ... (Director)
1972
- Temptation of Eros ... (Director)
- August: Scent of Eros ... (Director)
1971
- Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71 ... (Director)
- Wet Sand in August ... (Director)
1970
- Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo ... (Director)
- Step on the Gas! ... (Director)
- A Young Man's Stronghold ... (Director)
1968
- Japan Year Zero ... (Director)
1967
- Thirst for Love ... (Screenplay)
- The Black Sheep ... (Assistant Director)
- Juvenile Delinquent: Shout of the Rising Sun ... (Screenplay)
1966
- The Swan Elegy ... (Assistant Director)
1965
- Song of Dawn ... (Assistant Director)
1964
- Tale on Tokai Chivalry ... (Assistant Director)
- The Bride is Fifteen ... (Assistant Director)
1963
- The Gambling Monk ... (Assistant Director)
1962
- I Hate But Love ... (Assistant Director)
- Glass-Hearted Johnny ... (Assistant Director)
1961
- The Plateau Man ... (Assistant Director Trainee)
- Gambler in the Sea ... (Assistant Director)