Toshiya Fujita

Toshiya Fujita

Born: January 16, 1932
Died: August 29, 1997
in Pyongyang, North Korea
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.

Movies for Toshiya Fujita...

Time Leap
Title: Time Leap
Released: June 7, 1997
Type: Movie
Time travel film
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Remembering the Cosmos Flower
Title: Remembering the Cosmos Flower
Released: May 3, 1997
Type: Movie
Akiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. The town, thick with paranoia, is quick to ostracize the ailing Akiko. With only her best friend and her mom in her corner, Akiko suffers awful discrimination at school and at home.
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Hero
Title: Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Hero
Character: Kanamori
Released: September 21, 1996
Type: Movie
Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.
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Wet Hot Sake
Title: Wet Hot Sake
Character: Morio Mononobe
Released: February 24, 1996
Type: Movie
The best must be the freshest. The best sake also follows the same principle to brew in which it needs the best and freshest raw materials, and also the freshest virgin to make it? Visiting one of a Japanese pub that seems to offer the best warm sake, Mononobe tries to follow the steps to reproduce the same flavor. However, he suddenly found out that those flavors are actually a combination of sake, sweat, and other bodily secretions of a virgin. As his only daughter is not a virgin anymore, the only way to make the best sake without a pure virgin is...
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A Brief Message from the Heart
Title: A Brief Message from the Heart
Character: Professor Saito
Released: November 23, 1995
Type: Movie
A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.
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Secret Liaisons
Title: Secret Liaisons
Released: October 28, 1995
Type: Movie
Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.
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Nettai rakuen kurabu
Title: Nettai rakuen kurabu
Released: September 17, 1994
Type: Movie
Straight-laced, honest Japanese travel agent Misuzu gets a job as a tour guide so that she can the world. On her first assignment in Bangkok, Thailand she does her best for her ungrateful charges, but gets fired when the hotel (through no fault of her own) misplaces all their passports. She also finds herself the victim of a scam by two Japanese con-artists (innocent-looking Tondabayashi and half-Thai Thuy) living in Bangkok. When the hotel finds the passports, she decides to buck the system and sell them on the black market. She teams up with the two con-artists to scam, rip off and rob all the Japanese tourists in Bangkok. They keep trying to pull off bigger and bigger jobs, and end up in trouble with two dumb, sightseeing yakuza, among others. Also, a love triangle forms as Tondabayashi falls for Misuzu, and Misuzu falls for the older Thuy.
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Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”
Title: Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”
Released: August 21, 1993
Type: Movie
A dying pianist composes one final song for his childhood friend.
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Title: Namiki-ie no Hitobito
Released: January 14, 1993
Type: TV
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The Games Teachers Play
Title: The Games Teachers Play
Character: Vice Principal
Released: April 25, 1992
Type: Movie
The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class.
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Gorotsuki
Title: Gorotsuki
Released: March 21, 1992
Type: Movie
This coming-of-age drama comically depicts two young men who yearn to become members of the yakuza underworld, focusing on the apprenticeship of a rookie yakuza
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Why She Won't Marry
Title: Why She Won't Marry
Released: December 26, 1990
Type: Movie
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Tekken
Title: Tekken
Released: November 23, 1990
Type: Movie
A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer...
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Eien no 1/2
Title: Eien no 1/2
Released: November 21, 1987
Type: Movie
An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then begin to happen to him, including a beating from the local yakuza. - Wikipedia
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Tampopo
Title: Tampopo
Character: Man with Toothache
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: Movie
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
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Spring Bell
Title: Spring Bell
Released: November 9, 1985
Type: Movie
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, despite his wishes, and the two live separately. Feeling lonely and neglected by her husband, she immerses herself in the depraved life of the city and continues to have a loveless relationship with a doctor, Katsumori. One day, Narumi arrives in Tokyo and learns of Noriko's affair, but he cannot divorce her for the sake of their child, so he devotes himself to his work.
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Fruits of Passion
Title: Fruits of Passion
Character: Les clients
Released: June 3, 1981
Type: Movie
A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience to him in a Chinese brothel. A poor boy sees her and falls in love with her. To get the money needed to sleep with her, he takes part in rebellious acts.
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Four Seasons: Natsuko
Title: Four Seasons: Natsuko
Character: Audition Director
Released: August 6, 1980
Type: Movie
A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of new experiences.
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Zigeunerweisen
Title: Zigeunerweisen
Character: Toyojiro Aochi
Released: April 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
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The Visitor in the Eye
Title: The Visitor in the Eye
Character: Guard
Released: November 26, 1977
Type: Movie
Komori Tiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day in training her coach hits the ball into her eye accidentally. She is taken to hospital but is advised that she will never regain the sight in her eye.