Shinya Tsukamoto
Fujiwara was born into a poor family in a rural part of Kumamoto in 1957, and moved to Tokyo to pursue a career in theater. Playwright Jūrō Kara wrote roles for her to act in his plays and eventually became her mentor. She spent years creating underground theater companies, and collaborated with Shinya Tsukamoto on the plays and 8mm films he created. For Tsukamoto's film "", she participated both in front of the camera as the unnamed Girlfriend character, as well as behind the camera as the prop artist and one of the cinematographers.