Yasuo Furuhata

Known for: Directing
Born: August 19, 1934, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
Died: May 20, 2019
Movies: 53

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.0

Railroad Man

1999

6.9

Shogun's Shadow

1989

6.2

Station

1981

6.7

Dearest

2012

6.9

Buddies

1989

6.8

Reminiscence

2017

5.3

Moment of Demon

1985

6.5

Winter's Flower

1978

7.6

Demon

1985

5.9

Patience Has An End

1971

Filmography

2016	Ken San
2015	Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki	Self

Directing, Writing & Producing

2017	Reminiscence	Director
2013	A Boy Called H	Director
2012	Dearest	Director
2007	The Haunted Samurai	Director, Screenplay
2004	Red Moon	Director, Screenplay
2001	The Firefly	Director, Screenplay
1999	Railroad Man	Director, Screenplay
1997	A Story of Modern Chivalry	Director
1995	Kura	Director
1995	Another 47 Ronins: Genroku Taiheiki	Director
1995	Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon's Love and Ambition	Director
1994	Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell	Director
1992	Midwinter Camellia	Director
1991	The Man Who Became The Don	Director
1990	Estate Inheritance	Director
1990	Tasmania Story	Director
1989	Buddies	Director
1989	Yakuza Ladies 3	Director
1989	Shogun's Shadow	Director
1987	Reason For Not Divorcing	Director
1985	Demon	Director
1985	Moment of Demon	Director
1983	Choji Snack Bar	Director
1981	Station	Director
1981	Baian the Assassin	Director
1980	The Bear Storm	Director
1979	The Fixer	Director
1979	Waga seishun no eleven	Director
1979	本日ただいま誕生	Director
1978	Winter's Flower	Director
1974	A Blood Stained Love Affair	Director
1973	Big Bad Wolf	Director
1972	New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm	Director
1972	Organized Crime: Killer's Glory	Director
1971	New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter	Director, Screenplay
1971	New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape	Director
1971	Patience Has An End	Director
1970	New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stray Wolf in Snow	Director
1970	New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri	Director
1970	A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life	Director
1970	Rise and Fall of Chivalry	Director
1970	Brave Red Flower of the North	Director
1969	New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2	Director
1969	A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw	Director
1969	A Modern Yakuza: The Code of the Lawless	Director
1968	The Cheating Underworld	Director
1968	Prison Boss	Director
1967	Parole	Director, Screenplay
1967	King of the Gang	Director
1966	Glorious Fights	Director
1966	Pretty Devil Yoko	Director

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