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Toshiya Fujita

Directing Born Jan 16, 1932 Pyongyang, North Korea 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Film

Tampopo

as Man with Toothache
Film

Fruits of Passion

as Customer
Film

Spring Bell

as Tomio Murata

Full filmography

  • NIGHT HEAD (1992)
  • Tampopo (1985) as Man with Toothache
  • Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
  • Namiki-ie no Hitobito (1993)
  • Fruits of Passion (1981) as Customer
  • Spring Bell (1985) as Tomio Murata
  • Zigeunerweisen (1980) as Toyojiro Aochi
  • Four Seasons: Natsuko (1980) as Audition Director
  • Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero (1996) as Kanamori
  • Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye (1977) as Guard
  • Tekken (1990)
  • Why She Won't Marry (1990)
  • A Brief Message from the Heart (1995) as Professor Saito
  • Remembering the Cosmos Flower (1997)
  • Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki” (1993)
  • Wet Hot Sake (1996) as Morio Mononobe
  • Eien no 1/2 (1987)
  • The Games Teachers Play (1992) as Vice Principal
  • Time Leap (1997)
  • Secret Liaisons (1995)
  • Yume Camera 2 (1987)
  • Gorotsuki (1992)
  • The Tropical People (1994)
  • Pachinko Graffiti (1992)