Yasuo Furuhata
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 the Shin Abashiri Bangaichi series. He won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year and 31st International Film Festival of India for Poppoya.
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Yasuo Furuhata
- Name
- Yasuo Furuhata
- Born
- 19 August 1934
- Birthplace
- Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
- Died
- 20 May 2019
- Occupation
- Film director
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Fields
- film · television
- Education
- University of Tokyo
- Honours
- Medal with Purple Ribbon · The Order of the Rising Sun and Gold Rays with Rosette
- Languages
- Japanese
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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 the Shin Abashiri Bangaichi series. He won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year and 31st International Film Festival of India for Poppoya.
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Yasuo Furuhata (1934–2019) was a director and screenwriter, of Japanese and Japanese nationality. The director was born in Matsumoto and died in Tokyo.
Yasuo Furuhata was educated at University of Tokyo. Activity centred on film and television.
Languages used include Japanese. Honours include Medal with Purple Ribbon.
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He died 20 May 2019.
Yasuo Furuhata studied at University of Tokyo. The recorded working language is Japanese. The field of work recorded is film and television. Distinctions recorded are Medal with Purple Ribbon and The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette.
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Key facts
• Name — Yasuo Furuhata • Born — 19 August 1934 • Birthplace — Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan • Died — 20 May 2019 • Occupation — Film director
Filmography
Filmography
• Hikō Shōjo Yōko (1966) • Jigoku no okite ni asu wa nai (1966) • Chōeki jūhachi-nen: Kari shutsugoku (1967) • King of the Gang (1967) • Uragiri no ankokugai (1968) • Prison Boss (1968) • Gendai Yakuza: Yotamono no Okite (1969) • Gendai Yakuza: Yotamono Jingi (1969) • Shin Abashiri Bangaichi: Runin-Masaki no Ketto (1969) • Brave Red Flower of the North (1970) • Rise and Fall of Chivalry (1970) • Sutemi no Narazu-mono (1970) • Shin Abashiri Bangaichi: Fubuki no Hagure Okami (1970) • Shin Abashiri Bangaichi: Dai Shinrin no Ketto (1970) • Gorotsuki Mushuku (1971) • Shin Abashiri Bangaichi: Fubuki no Dai-Dassou (1971) • Shin Abashiri Bangaichi: Arashi Yobu Shiretoko-Misaki (1971) • Shin Abashiri Bangaichi: Arashi Yobu Danpu Jingi (1972) • Japan's Violent Gangs: Loyalty Offering Murder (1972) • Iro ma (1973) • Shikimao Okami (1973) • Yoru no Enka: Shinobikoi (1974) • Winter's Flower (1978) • Honjitsu Tadaima Tanjō (1979) • Nihon no Fixer (1979) • Waga Seishun no Eleven (1979) • Eki (1981) • Shikake-nin Baian (1981) • Izakaya Chōji (1983) • Yasha (1985) • Time of Wickedness (1985) • Wakarenu Riyū (1987) • Shogun's Shadow (1989) • Buddies (1989) • Yakuza Ladies 3 (1989) • Isan Sōzoku, also known as Estate Inheritance (1990) • Tasmania Monogatari (1990) • Don ni Natta Otoko (1991) • Kantsubaki (1992) • Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell (1994) • Kura (1995) • Gendai Ninkyoden (1997) • Poppoya (1999) • The Firefly (2001) • Akai Tsuki (2004) • Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005) • The Haunted Samurai (2007) • Anata e (2012) • A Boy Called H (2013) • Reminiscences (2017)
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