Giichi Fujimoto

Birth : 1933-01-26, Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Death : 2012-10-30

Movies

Kamigata Kugaizoshi
Book
"Do Not Fall" - Set during Japan's Meiji period, three sisters are abused and exploited by their harsh father, including a daughter who plays the three-corded shamisen for pilgrims visiting the sacred chapel of Ise.
Kōshoku hana densha
Novel
Pinku from 1981. A man in debt runs away from home, leaving his elderly father and wife between a rock and a hard place.
Kōshoku hana densha
Screenplay
Pinku from 1981. A man in debt runs away from home, leaving his elderly father and wife between a rock and a hard place.
Striptease Artists
Book
Roman Porno from 1977.
Outlaw Cop
Novel
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.
Song of the Devil
Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that Rokyu's rakugo is compromised by the elements of kabuki. But Bakyo changes his mind and determines to learn (or steal) Rokyu's craft and makes it his own.
Song of the Devil
Adaptation
Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that Rokyu's rakugo is compromised by the elements of kabuki. But Bakyo changes his mind and determines to learn (or steal) Rokyu's craft and makes it his own.
Song of the Devil
Story
Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that Rokyu's rakugo is compromised by the elements of kabuki. But Bakyo changes his mind and determines to learn (or steal) Rokyu's craft and makes it his own.
Ecstasy of the Black Rose
Novel
After his leading actress becomes pregnant and quits his sex film, Juzo becomes obsessed with finding a woman whose moaning he captured secretly at a dentist’s office to star in the film instead.
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
Screenplay
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by Keiju Kobayashi) and the leader of the gang (played by Norihei Miki) have an interesting wartime backstory together that fuels much of the story.
Prison Break
Original Story
Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father’s murder. He then learns it was all a plot to take over his father’s turf and he seeks vengeance against the puppet master behind the entire conspiracy. His quest for justice leads him to prison where he must fend off the attack of a master assassin before he can make his escape and go after the true killer!
The Funeral Racket
Writer
The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
Kanto Woman Yakuza
Screenplay
The Silent Gun
Screenplay
A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, Daisuke himself is almost killed while investigating the case. This occurred while he was with Ritsuko, daughter of a company president. Detective Kimura thinks that the president himself, returned to Japan after an absence of fifteen years, might be the killer, or at least the man who supplied the gun. Ritsuko's father limps and though she explains this as the result of a traffic accident, Kimura remembers a narcotics smuggler named Suginami who shot himself in the ankle and then escaped from the hospital. He believes that the company president and the drug peddler are the same.
Quick-Draw Dog
Writer
Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth film in the Inu series.
Stray Dog
Screenplay
Stray Dog (野良犬) is a 1966 film directed by Yoshio Inoue. It is the seventh film in the Inu series.
Zoku teppō inu
Screenplay
Zoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the Inu series.
Trigger Happy Romeo
Screenplay
Fifth film in the "Inu" series.
Rampaging Dog
Writer
Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series.
The Dedicated Gunman
Screenplay
Third film in the "Inu" series.
Clamouring Canines
Screenplay
Bad Reputation: The Big Drum
Writer
Homeless Dog
Screenplay
First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka
Fools at Work
Screenplay
A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.
Room for Let
Writer
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.