Toshiaki Toyoda

 

Director
Toyoda (born in Osaka, 1969) is a Japanese director and screenwriter who decided to start making films after he saw Dotsuitarunen (1989), Junji Sakamoto’s debut. Impressed by what he saw, he traveled to Tokyo and asked Sakamoto for a job. He began working in the same production house as Sakamoto - Arato Genijiiro Production. Together they wrote the screenplay for the film Ôte (Checkmate, 1991), directed by Sakamoto. They collaborated on the film Biriken (1996), and afterwards Toyoda made his screenwriting and directing debut with the crime drama Poruno sutâ (Pornostar, 1981). Afterwards he made the documentary Unchain (2000) about the Japanese boxer. For his next film Aoi haru (Blue Spring, 2001) he wrote the screenplay based on a manga and afterwards he directed the crime drama 9 Souls (2003) and the family drama Kűchű teien (2005) whose screenplay was based on Mitsuyo Kakuta’s novel with the same title. He is currently working in post-production on his film Yomigaeri no chi.

Filmography


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Films by this director

Hanging Garden

(Kűchű teien, 2005)

Directed by: Toshiaki Toyoda
PHOTOGRAPHY: Junichi Fujisawa
Synopsis:

This is a story about a family whose credo is to always tell the truth and never hide anything from each other. However, the mother Eriko, who cares the most about the idea of a happy, honest family, is fighting depression and her husband hides many affairs with lovers. Their daughter skips school and spends time with her boyfriend while their son is a typical rebellious fourteen-year-old.

35mm, color, 113 min

Blue Spring

(Aoi haru, 2001.)

Directed by: Toshiaki Toyoda
PHOTOGRAPHY: Norimichi Kasamatsu
Synopsis:

Asashi High is an all-boys high school and a place where teachers have given up hope that their students will ever have a bright future. Most of them have come to terms with the fact that there are no business careers ahead of them, unless they take up work for one of the yakuza clans. The school is already controlled by a gang of students whose boss is a boy who won in a dangerous game of "clapping". Aoki is happy to see his friend Kujo win, but soon realizes that his apathetic friend doesn't c...

color, 35 mm, 83 min
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