Toshiya Fujita
1932 - 1997Tampopo
Juzo Itami
Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto
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
Lady Snowblood
Toshiya Fujita
Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
Lady Snowblood
海燕ジョーの奇跡
Toshiya Fujita
Saburo Tokito, Miwako Fujitani
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
永遠の1/2
Kichitaro Negishi
Saburo Tokito, Shinobu Ōtake
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
リボルバー
Toshiya Fujita
Kenji Sawada, Masatoshi Murakami
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
十八歳、海へ
Toshiya Fujita
Aiko Morishita, Toshiyuki Nagashima
Kei and Atsuo were both enrolled in summer school. Kei was an honor student, and Atsuo was the polar opposite - but opposites attract. After school, the two head to the beach, where they find another student from their school competing against a local gang member, to see who is able to hold his breath longer under water. Overwhelmed by the excitement, Kei and Atsuo decide to try themselves.
Eighteen Years, to the Sea