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Yasuo Furuhata

Name in Native Language: "降旗康男" (Japanese/JA)
Film Director / Screenwriter | * 08/19/1934 († 84, 05/20/2019) | Matsumoto, Nagano (Japan)
Yasuo Furuhata (降旗 康男, Furuhata Yasuo, 19 August 1934 – 20 May 2019) was a Japanese film director. He was a director of Toei film company and he often worked with Ken Takakura in such films as Eki and Shin Abashiri Bangaichi. He won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year and 31st International Film Festival of India for Poppoya. He died 20 May 2019. ()

Yasuo Furuhata was a Japanese film director. He was a director of Toei film company and he often worked with Ken Takakura in such films as Eki and Shin Abashiri Bangaichi. He won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year and 31st International Film Festival of India for Poppoya. He died 20 May 2019.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Crime | Action

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A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a ...

Railroad Man

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1999 | 3.5/5 | 1h 52min
Drama
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A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers. ...

Station

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1981 | 2.8/5 | 2h 12min
Drama
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A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife's death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea. Eiji (Ken Takakura) works as a prison officer in Hokuriku. At the age ...

Dearest

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2012 | 3.4/5 | 1h 51min
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Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love. ...

Buddies

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1989 | 3.4/5 | 1h 54min
Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Yasuo Furuhata

Medal With Purple Ribbon The Order of The Rising Sun, Gold Rays With Rosette
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Movies with Yasuo Furuhata as Crew(51)

Directing/Director2017 Reminiscence
Directing/Director2013 A Boy Called H
Directing/Director2012 Dearest
Directing/Director2007 The Haunted Samurai
Directing/Director2004 Akai Tsuki
Writing/Screenplay2004 Akai Tsuki
Directing/Director2001 The Firefly
Writing/Writer2001 The Firefly
Directing/Director1999 Railroad Man
Directing/Director1997 Gendai ninkyoden
Directing/Director1995 Kura
Directing/Director1994 Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell
Directing/Director1992 Midwinter Camellia
Directing/Director1990 Estate Inheritance
Directing/Director1990 Tasmania Story
Directing/Director1989 Buddies
Directing/Director1989 Shogun's Shadow
Directing/Director1989 Yakuza Ladies 3
Directing/Director1987 Reason For Not Divorcing
Directing/Director1985 Demon
Directing/Director1985 Moment of Demon
Directing/Director1983 Choji Snack Bar
Directing/Director1981 Shikake-nin Baian
Directing/Director1981 Station
Directing/Director1979 Waga seishun no eleven
Directing/Director1979 The Fixer
Directing/Director1978 Winter's Flower
Directing/Director1972 Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
Directing/Director1972 New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
Directing/Director1971 New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
Writing/Screenplay1971 New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
Directing/Director1971 New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
Directing/Director1971 Patience Has An End
Directing/Director1970 Rise and Fall of Chivalry
Directing/Director1970 Brave Red Flower of the North
Directing/Director1970 A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
Directing/Director1970 New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
Directing/Director1970 New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stray Wolf in Snow
Directing/Director1969 A Modern Yakuza: The Code of The Lawless
Directing/Director1969 A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw
Directing/Director1969 New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
Directing/Director1968 The Cheating Underworld
Directing/Director1968 Prison Boss
Directing/Director1967 Parole
Writing/Screenplay1967 Parole
Directing/Director1967 King of the Gang
Directing/Assistant Director1966 A Circus Girl
Directing/Director1966 Glorious Fights
Directing/Director1966 Pretty Devil Yoko
Directing/Assistant Director1965 Brutal Tales of Chivalry
Directing/Assistant Director1963 Tale of Army Brutality

TV Shows/Series with Yasuo Furuhata as Crew(1)

Directing/Director1975 Red Suspicion

Full Name: Yasuo Furuhata
Citizenship: Japan
Born: Sunday, 08/19 1934 (August) in Matsumoto, Nagano (Japan)
Died: Monday, 05/20 2019 (May) in Tokyo (aged: 84)
Zodiac sign: Leo (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: Japanese (JA)
Educated at: University of Tokyo
Other names for Yasuo Furuhata (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"降旗康男"
"Ясуо Фурухата"
"ふるはた やすお" (Kana/Japanese)
Yasuo Furuhata frequently works together with these people:
Ken Takakura (20x, Actor)
Rinichi Yamamoto (13x, Actor)
Hideo Murota (11x, Actor)
Daisaku Kimura (11x, Crew)
Nenji Kobayashi (10x, Actor)
Akira Murao (8x, Crew)
Kunie Tanaka (8x, Actor)
Nobuo Yana (7x, Actor)
Tōru Yuri (7x, Actor)
Kenji Imai (7x, Actor)
Shingo Yamashiro (7x, Actor)
Akira Inoue (1x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:275675, Added: 08/09/2018, Last updated: 03/26/2024