Toshiya Fujita

Directing

Toshiya Fujita

Born — Died

1932-01-16 — 1997-08-29

Place of birth

Pyongyang, North Korea

Known for

Directing

Credits

65 titles

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

NIGHT HEAD poster
5.0

It is said that the mysterious "power" of human beings is hidden in 70 percent of the brain called Night Head. Two brothers have been incarcerated in a secure scientific facility for the past fifteen years due to their paranormal abilities.

NIGHT HEAD

1992

Tampopo poster
7.8

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.

Tampopo

1985

Younger Sister poster
3.8

Akio's sister, Neri has separated from her boyfriend. They lived in Kamakura. She moves in with her brother. Her ex-boyfriend's sister, Eiko comes to see Neri. She wonders if the separation occurred due to her because the three of them used to live together. Eiko's brother has disappeared in the meantime.

Younger Sister

1974

Zigeunerweisen poster
6.5

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.

Zigeunerweisen

1980

Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting poster
4.3

Two high school friends. One witnesses the breakup of her family after a brutal home invasion. The other loses her virginity to an African-American soldier. Together they make a vital discovery and exact violent revenge.

Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting

1977

Lady Snowblood poster
7.5

A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

Lady Snowblood

1973

Film credits

1990s · 13 titles

Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki” poster
6.5

A dying pianist composes one final song for his childhood friend.

Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”

1993

The Tropical People poster
9.0

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.

The Tropical People

1994

Tekken poster
5.0

A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer...

Tekken

1990

A Brief Message from the Heart poster
8.0

A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.

A Brief Message from the Heart

1995

Why She Won't Marry poster
9.0

A single mother uses marriage as a business, a way to make money and put food on the table. She regularly patronizes a bar, where she's friendly with the manager, unaware that not only is the man involved with her daughter but he secretly prefers the mother!

Why She Won't Marry

1990

The Games Teachers Play poster
10.0

The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class.

The Games Teachers Play

1992

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero poster
9.0

Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero

1996

Wet Hot Sake poster
4.4

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...

Wet Hot Sake

1996

Secret Liaisons poster
7.0

Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.

Secret Liaisons

1995

Remembering the Cosmos Flower poster
5.0

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.

Remembering the Cosmos Flower

1997

Time Leap poster
NR

Time travel film

Time Leap

1997

Pachinko Graffiti poster
8.0

With a single appointment letter, Tokyo University graduate Kohei's bright future and relationship with his high class girlfriend is turned upside-down. Ordered to work at a pachinko parlor in the city outskirts, he must now live and learn from his new coworkers and customers and their many quirks.

Pachinko Graffiti

1992

Gorotsuki poster
10.0

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

Gorotsuki

1992

1980s · 7 titles

Tampopo poster
7.8

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.

Tampopo

1985

Zigeunerweisen poster
6.5

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.

Zigeunerweisen

1980

Fruits of Passion poster
5.3

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.

Fruits of Passion

1981

Four Seasons: Natsuko poster
5.9

A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of new experiences.

Four Seasons: Natsuko

1980

Spring Bell poster
7.2

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.

Spring Bell

1985

Eien no 1/2 poster
8.0

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

Eien no 1/2

1987

Yume Camera 2 poster
NR

Second part of the Fujiko Fujio omnibus TV drama special production.

Yume Camera 2

1987

Series credits

Behind the camera

Younger Sister poster
3.8

Akio's sister, Neri has separated from her boyfriend. They lived in Kamakura. She moves in with her brother. Her ex-boyfriend's sister, Eiko comes to see Neri. She wonders if the separation occurred due to her because the three of them used to live together. Eiko's brother has disappeared in the meantime.

Younger Sister

1974

Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting poster
4.3

Two high school friends. One witnesses the breakup of her family after a brutal home invasion. The other loses her virginity to an African-American soldier. Together they make a vital discovery and exact violent revenge.

Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting

1977

Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting poster
4.3

Two high school friends. One witnesses the breakup of her family after a brutal home invasion. The other loses her virginity to an African-American soldier. Together they make a vital discovery and exact violent revenge.

Girl’s Pleasure: Man Hunting

1977

Lady Snowblood poster
7.5

A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

Lady Snowblood

1973

The Unspoiled Diamond poster
4.5

A college student has an affair with a married, middle-aged teacher.

The Unspoiled Diamond

1982

Virgin Blues poster
7.0

Teenagers are rebels without a cause. Let it be for stress relief or just a way to kill time, Mami (Kumiko Akiyoshi) and Chiaki were always up to no good – but their luck runs out when they shoplift with some other girls at a local supermarket. They flee from the scene and head back home, only to find detectives at their front door.

Virgin Blues

1974

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance poster
6.4

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

1974

Double Bed poster
5.1

Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a girl friend Riko who lives with her younger sister Yuko who's an actress. Yamazaki is a lyric writer/womanizer and he starts to have an affair with Masako, but he's still going out with Riko.

Double Bed

1983

Temptation of Angel poster
5.4

A story of the everyday life of a couple living together, ordinary but full of warmth and love. Starring Miura and Yamaguchi's first movie since making public of their romance--their real-life story on the screen.

Temptation of Angel

1979

Temptation of Angel poster
5.4

A story of the everyday life of a couple living together, ordinary but full of warmth and love. Starring Miura and Yamaguchi's first movie since making public of their romance--their real-life story on the screen.

Temptation of Angel

1979

Eighteen Years, to the Sea poster
6.7

Struggling with money, violence and social pressure, a couple of youngsters are drawn to dangerous games of death.

Eighteen Years, to the Sea

1979

Play it, Boogie-Woogie poster
8.0

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships.

Play it, Boogie-Woogie

1981

Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly poster
4.8

A young man has more on his hands than he can handle: a child he rarely sees, a runaway wife, and a young prostitute he has just met. The close-knit city of Tokyo brings them all together.

Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly

1979

The Days of No Return poster
7.5

The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father.

The Days of No Return

1978

The Days of No Return poster
7.5

The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father.

The Days of No Return

1978

Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71 poster
5.6

The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.

Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71

1971

Temptation of Eros poster
3.8

Tane, a female clerk of a rubber company in a corner of an industrial area facing Tokyo Bay is a quirky woman, also living on the second floor of the company warehouse.

Temptation of Eros

1972

Red Paper Lantern poster
7.2

A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.

Red Paper Lantern

1974

The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel poster
6.7

In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines, hoping to find there safety and perhaps to link up with his father. He meets Yoko, a saloon girl, who looks after him, but soon Joe's enemies show up, determined to make Joe pay.

The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel

1984

The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel poster
6.7

In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines, hoping to find there safety and perhaps to link up with his father. He meets Yoko, a saloon girl, who looks after him, but soon Joe's enemies show up, determined to make Joe pay.

The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel

1984

Thirst for Love poster
7.0

A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener.

Thirst for Love

1967

Sweet Scent of Eros poster
4.0

Yukie, Koichi and Akira are rogues looking for a place to crash. They move into a house which Etsuko (Kaori Momoi) inherited from her parents. Soon after getting settled, the hippies slip into a communal lifestyle. They eat, have sex, and generally share everything together.

Sweet Scent of Eros

1973

Sweet Scent of Eros poster
4.0

Yukie, Koichi and Akira are rogues looking for a place to crash. They move into a house which Etsuko (Kaori Momoi) inherited from her parents. Soon after getting settled, the hippies slip into a communal lifestyle. They eat, have sex, and generally share everything together.

Sweet Scent of Eros

1973

A Young Man's Stronghold poster
10.0

A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.

A Young Man's Stronghold

1970

A Young Man's Stronghold poster
10.0

A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.

A Young Man's Stronghold

1970

Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo poster
5.7

Wild young people kidnap a wealthy woman and she becomes attracted to one of them. When she tells the man that she is the mistress of a religious leader, he and his posse make plans to rob her partner.

Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo

1970

Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo poster
5.7

Wild young people kidnap a wealthy woman and she becomes attracted to one of them. When she tells the man that she is the mistress of a religious leader, he and his posse make plans to rob her partner.

Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo

1970

White Love poster
6.5

Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language teacher Ken. Finally she found her father in Madrid and she also met Ken's ex-girl friend Taeko there. Ken came to Madrid and learned of their meeting. He wanted her to help to look for Taeko. Ken was caught in between the past and the present.

White Love

1979

August: Scent of Eros poster
7.0

A department store girl is robbed of her cash register by a boy, but for some reason she cannot forget the boy's mysterious eyes, and time passes. One day, she accidentally spots those eyes again and relentlessly pursues the boy. And the moment she apprehends him on a beach, her hatred transforms into pleasure, and they find themselves drawn to each other in this New Roman Porno film.

August: Scent of Eros

1972

August: Scent of Eros poster
7.0

A department store girl is robbed of her cash register by a boy, but for some reason she cannot forget the boy's mysterious eyes, and time passes. One day, she accidentally spots those eyes again and relentlessly pursues the boy. And the moment she apprehends him on a beach, her hatred transforms into pleasure, and they find themselves drawn to each other in this New Roman Porno film.

August: Scent of Eros

1972

Confessions of a Teenage Mother poster
6.7

After having dropped out of school and given birth at age 16, Mako has little choice but to move in with the baby's deadbeat father. Struggling to make ends meet by working at a bar and in constant conflict with her conservative parents, Mako has to find her way in a harsh world.

Confessions of a Teenage Mother

1977

Confessions of a Teenage Mother poster
6.7

After having dropped out of school and given birth at age 16, Mako has little choice but to move in with the baby's deadbeat father. Struggling to make ends meet by working at a bar and in constant conflict with her conservative parents, Mako has to find her way in a harsh world.

Confessions of a Teenage Mother

1977

Revolver poster
7.2

When a gun belonging to a police officer is stolen, it ends up in the hands of a student, who decides to use it on a yakuza who beat him recently. Now the police officer is hot on the student’s trail, and he’s determined to prevent the gun from going off.

Revolver

1988

Statue in Fire poster
7.5

Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).

Statue in Fire

1974

Beyond the Shining Sea poster
7.0

Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cousin.

Beyond the Shining Sea

1986

Step on the Gas! poster
8.5

Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...

Step on the Gas!

1970

Step on the Gas! poster
8.5

Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...

Step on the Gas!

1970

Wet Sand in August poster
6.0

Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.

Wet Sand in August

1971

Wet Sand in August poster
6.0

Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.

Wet Sand in August

1971

Did the Red Bird Escape? poster
6.5

A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well-to-do family.

Did the Red Bird Escape?

1973