, also known as Shigeya Fujita, was a Japanese

Japanese people

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 filmmaker, film actor, and screenwriter

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. He was born in Pyongyang

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, Korea

Korea under Japanese rule

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. After graduating from Tokyo University, he entered the Nikkatsu

Nikkatsu

is a Japanese entertainment company well known for its film and television productions. It is Japan's oldest major movie studio. The name Nikkatsu is an abbreviation of Nippon Katsudō Shashin, literally "Japan Cinematograph Company".-History:...

 studio in 1955 and made his debut as a director in 1967. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award

Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award

The is given annually by the Directors Guild of Japan to a new director of a film released that year who is considered the most "suitable" for the award. The winner is selected by a committee formed of DGJ members. All formats—feature film, documentary, television, video, etc.—are eligible for...

 for his first film, Hikō shōnen: Hinode no sakebi, in 1967. He especially became known for his youth films. He directed over 30 films and is best known abroad for Lady Snowblood

Lady Snowblood (film)

is a 1973 Japanese film directed by Toshiya Fujita and starring Meiko Kaji. It is based on the manga of the same name by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Kazuo Kamimura and follows the story of the eponymous assassin seeking vengeance upon the bandits who raped her mother and murdered her father.It...

and Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance. He also worked as an actor in films by Seijun Suzuki

Seijun Suzuki

, born Seitaro Suzuki on May 24, 1923, is a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are renowned by film enthusiasts worldwide for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility...

 and Jūzō Itami

Juzo Itami

, born , was an actor and a popular modern Japanese film director. Many critics came to regard him as Japan's greatest director since Akira Kurosawa. His 10 movies, all of which he wrote himself, are comic satires on elements of Japanese culture....

. He died of acute liver failure at age 65.

Awards

Toshiya Fujita has been nominated two times for the Award of the Japanese Academy: in 1979 (Best Director and Best Screenplay for Kaerazaru hibi) and 1981 (Best supporting actor for Tsigoineruwaizen). He also won the Readers' Choice Award in 1979 (Best Japanese Film Director for Kaerazaru hibi).

Director

• Hikō shōnen: Hinode no sakebi (1967)
• Nora-Neko Rock: Wild Jumbo Nara-neko rokku: Wairudo janbo (1970)
• Step on the Gas Shinjuku outlaw: Buttobase (1970)
• Beat '71 Nora-neko rokku: Bōsō shudan '71 (1971)
• Hachigatsu no nureta suna (1971)
• Erosu wa amaki kaori (1973)
• Akai tori nigeta (1973)
• Lady Snowblood
  Lady Snowblood (film)
  is a 1973 Japanese film directed by Toshiya Fujita and starring Meiko Kaji. It is based on the manga of the same name by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Kazuo Kamimura and follows the story of the eponymous assassin seeking vengeance upon the bandits who raped her mother and murdered her father.It...
  
  (修羅雪姫 Shurayukihime) (1973)
• Honō no shōzō (1974)
• Virgin Blues (1974)
• Imouto (1974)
• Aka chōchin (1974)
• Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
  Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
  Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance is a 1974 Japanese film directed by Toshiya Fujita and starring Meiko Kaji. It is based on the manga of the same name by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Kazuo.-Story:...
  
  Shurayukihime: Urami Renga (1974)
• Jitsuroku furyo shōjo: kan (1977)
• Kiken na kankei (1978)
• Kaerazaru hibi
  Kaerazaru hibi
  is a 1978 Japanese film directed by Toshiya Fujita.-Reception:Nominated for the Award of the Japanese Academy in 1979 for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Won the Readers' Choice Award in 1979 for Best Japanese Film Director for Kaerazaru hibi)....
  
  (1978)
• The Miracle of Joe Petrel
  The Miracle of Joe Petrel
  is a 1984 Japanese film directed by Toshiya Fujita....
  
  (1984)

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