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Yasuo Furuhata

Yasuo Furuhata

Yasuo Furuhata

1934-08-19

Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

DIRECTING

Biography

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 for:

Railroad Man

Shogun's Shadow

Dearest

Station

Brutal Tales of Chivalry

Buddies

Moment of Demon

Patience Has An End

The Haunted Samurai

A Boy Called H

Reminiscence

Demon

Winter's Flower

Glorious Fights

Brave Red Flower of the North

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape

Red Suspicion

Choji Snack Bar

Pretty Devil Yoko

Prison Boss

A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw

Rise and Fall of Chivalry

The Fixer

Estate Inheritance

Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell

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Filmography:

Tale of Army Brutality (1963)
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Assistant Director
Brutal Tales of Chivalry (1965)
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Assistant Director
Love on the Rainbow (1965)
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Assistant Director
Glorious Fights (1966)
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Director
A Circus Girl (1966)
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Assistant Director
Pretty Devil Yoko (1966)
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Director
King of the Gang (1967)
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Director
Parole (1967)
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Screenplay, Director

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Prison Boss (1968)
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Director
The Cheating Underworld (1968)
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Director
New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2 (1969)
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Director
A Modern Yakuza: The Code of The Lawless (1969)
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Director
A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw (1969)
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Director
Brave Red Flower of the North (1970)
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Director
Rise and Fall of Chivalry (1970)
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Director
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri (1970)
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Director

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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stray Wolf in Snow (1970)
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Director
A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life (1970)
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Director
Patience Has An End (1971)
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Director
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter (1971)
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Director, Screenplay
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape (1971)
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Director
Organized Crime: Killer's Glory (1972)
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Director
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm (1972)
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Director
A Blood Stained Love Affair (1974)
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Director
Red Suspicion (1975)
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Director
Akai Shougeki (1976)
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Director
Winter's Flower (1978)
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Director
The Fixer (1979)
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Director
Waga seishun no eleven (1979)
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Director
The Bear Storm (1980)
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Director
Station (1981)
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Director
Baian the Assassin (1981)
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Director
Choji Snack Bar (1983)
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Director
Demon (1985)
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Director
Moment of Demon (1985)
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Director
Reason For Not Divorcing (1987)
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Director
Shogun's Shadow (1989)
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Director
Buddies (1989)
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Director
Yakuza Ladies 3 (1989)
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Director
Tasmania Story (1990)
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Director
Estate Inheritance (1990)
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Director
The Man Who Became The Don (1991)
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Director
Midwinter Camellia (1992)
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Director
Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell (1994)
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Director
Kura (1995)
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Director
Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon's Love and Ambition (1995)
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Director
Another 47 Ronins: Genroku Taiheiki (1995)
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Director
A Story of Modern Chivalry (1997)
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Director
Sanada Yukimura: The Man Shogun Ieyasu Feared Most (1998)
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Director
Railroad Man (1999)
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Director
The Firefly (2001)
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Writer, Director
Red Moon (2004)
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Director, Screenplay
The Haunted Samurai (2007)
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Director
Dearest (2012)
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Director
A Boy Called H (2013)
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Director
Reminiscence (2017)
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Director