Toshiya Fujita
- Directing
- January 16, 1932 · Pyongyang, North Korea
- August 29, 1997
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Time Leap
- Remembering the Cosmos Flower
- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero · Kanamori
- Wet Hot Sake · Morio Mononobe
- A Brief Message from the Heart · Professor Saito
- Secret Liaisons
- The Tropical People
- Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”
- Namiki-ie no Hitobito
- NIGHT HEAD
- The Games Teachers Play · Vice Principal
- Gorotsuki
- Pachinko Graffiti
- Why She Won't Marry
- Tekken
- The Great White Tower · Professor Funao
- Revolver · Director
- Eien no 1/2
- Yume Camera 2
- Beyond the Shining Sea · Director
- Tampopo · Man with Toothache
- Spring Bell · Tomio Murata
- The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel · Screenplay, Director
- Double Bed · Director
- The Unspoiled Diamond · Director
- Fruits of Passion · Customer
- Play it, Boogie-Woogie · Director
- Four Seasons: Natsuko · Audition Director
- Zigeunerweisen · Toyojiro Aochi
- Temptation of Angel · Director, Screenplay
- Eighteen Years, to the Sea · Director
- White Love · Screenplay
- Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly · Director
- The Days of No Return · Director, Screenplay
- Dangerous Liaisons · Director
- Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye · Guard
- Confessions of a Teenage Mother · Director, Screenplay
- Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting · Director, Screenplay
- Barefoot in Blue Jeans · Director, Screenplay
- Statue in Fire · Director
- Virgin Blues · Director
- Younger Sister · Director
- Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance · Director
- Red Paper Lantern · Director
- Lady Snowblood · Director
- Sweet Scent of Eros · Director, Screenplay
- Did the Red Bird Escape? · Director, Writer
- Horror Theater Unbalance · Director
- A Woman Who Warns of Death · Director
- Temptation of Eros · Director
- August: Scent of Eros · Director, Screenplay
- Wet Sand in August · Writer, Director
- Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71 · Director
- Step on the Gas! · Director, Screenplay
- Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo · Director, Screenplay
- A Young Man's Stronghold · Writer, Director
- Funeral Parade of Roses
- Japan Year Zero · Director
- Juvenile Delinquent: Shout of the Rising Sun · Screenplay, Director
- Thirst for Love · Screenplay, Assistant Director
- The Black Sheep · Assistant Director
- The Swan Elegy · Assistant Director
- Song of Dawn · Assistant Director
- The Bride is Fifteen · Assistant Director
- Tale on Tokai Chivalry · Assistant Director
- The Gambling Monk · Assistant Director
- Glass-Hearted Johnny · Assistant Director
- I Hate But Love · Assistant Director
- The Plateau Man · Assistant Director Trainee
- Gambler in the Sea · Assistant Director
- Toumei na kisetsu · Director