{{Short description|Japanese actor (1957–2003)}} {{Infobox person | name = Masato Furuoya | image = | imagesize = | caption = | native_name = 古尾谷 雅人 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1957|5|14}} | birth_place = [[Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki|Nakahara-ku]], [[Kawasaki, Kanagawa|Kawasaki]], [[Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa]], Japan | death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|3|25|1957|5|14}} | death_place = [[Tokyo]], Japan | death_cause = [[Suicide by hanging]] | native_name_lang = ja | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1977–2003 | spouse = Eri Kanuma | website = | awards = }} {{Nihongo|'''Masato Furuoya'''|古尾谷 雅人|Furuoya Masato|May 14, 1957 – March 25, 2003}} was a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 2nd [[Yokohama Film Festival]] and at the 5th [[Hochi Film Award]] for ''[[Disciples of Hippocrates]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/02-1980/02_1980_shou.html|title= 第２回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９８０年日本映画個人賞|accessdate= 2010-12-12|language= Japanese|publisher= Yokohama Film Festival|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151208070729/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/02-1980/02_1980_shou.html|archive-date= 2015-12-08|url-status= dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1980/ |title=報知映画賞ヒストリー |accessdate=2010-12-12 |language=Japanese |publisher=Cinema Hochi |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005192353/http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1980/ |archivedate=2011-10-05 }}</ref> and at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for ''[[Uchū no hōsoku]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/12-1990/12_1990_shou.html|title= 第１２回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９９０年日本映画個人賞|accessdate= 2010-12-12|language= Japanese|publisher= Yokohama Film Festival|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120928063426/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/12-1990/12_1990_shou.html|archive-date= 2012-09-28|url-status= dead}}</ref> He committed suicide on March 25, 2003, by hanging himself at his home in [[Tokyo]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2003-04-17 |title=いったいなぜ？俳優の古尾谷雅人さんが自殺 |url=http://www.sanspo.com/geino/top/gt200303/gt2003032601.html |access-date=2024-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030417015107/http://www.sanspo.com/geino/top/gt200303/gt2003032601.html |archive-date=2003-04-17 |language=ja}}</ref>
==Filmography== ===Film=== {{Div col}} *''Onna kyôshi'' (1977) – Hideo Egawa *''Hitozuma shudan boko chishi jiken'' (1978) – Shozo Utagawa *''Tenshi no harawata: Nami'' (1979) – Man who attacked Ryoko *''Sûpâ gun redei Wani Bunsho'' (1979) – Makoto Katô, Robber of bank *''Danchizuma nikuyoku no tousui'' (1979) – Shûichi Aono *''Shûdôjo: Kokui no naka no uzuki'' (1980) – Hirohi Mitamura *''[[Disciples of Hippocrates]]'' (1980) – Ogino, Aisaku *''Slow na boogie ni shitekure'' (1981) – Goro *''Akuryo-To'' (1981) – Goro Mitsuki *''Kaze no uta o kike'' (1982) – Punk *''Kugatsu no joudan kurabu bando'' (1982) – Moro *''Kyôdan'' (1982) – Akihiko Numata *''[[Ushimitsu no mura]]'' (1983) – [[Tsuyama massacre#Perpetrator|Tsugio Inumaru]] *''Itsuka darekaga korosareru'' (1984) – Kazuo Takara *''Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma'' (1986) – Shujiro Hirai *''Kyabarê'' (1986) – Sajima *''[[Lost in the Wilderness]]'' (1986) – Masao Ogawa *''Ôidippsu no katana'' (1986) – Shunsuke Osako *''Oedipus no yaiba'' (1986) – Shunsuke Osako *''Wakarenu riyû'' (1987) – Matsunaga *''Gokiburi-tachi no tasogare'' (1987) – Hans (voice) *''[[Wuthering Heights (1988 film)|Wuthering Heights]]'' (1988) – Yoshimaru *''[[Hana no Furu Gogo (film)|Hana no Furu Gogo]]'' (1989) *''[[Uchū no hōsoku]]'' (1990) – Yoshiaki Masaki *''Pachinko monogatari'' (1990) *''Yamada babaa ni hanataba o'' (1990) – Yuji Mizuzawa *''[[Best Guy]]'' (1990) – Major Nobuaki "Zombie/Demon" Yoshinaga *''Satsujin ga ippai'' (1991) *''Ryakudatsu ai'' (1991) *''[[All Under the Moon]]'' (1993) – Konno *''Shoot'' (1994) – Teacher Isogai *''Ie naki ko'' (1994) *''Mâkusu no yama'' (1995) – Higo *''Endoresu warutsu'' (1995) – Motoharu Yoshizawa *''Fuhô-taizai'' (1996) *''Kindaichi shonen no jikembo: Shanghai ningyo densetsu'' (1997) *''Mamotte agetai!'' (2000) – Shinji Tachibana *''Howaitoauto'' (2000) – Kensuke Fujimaki {{div col end}}
===Television=== *''[[The Kindaichi Case Files]]'' (1995) – Isamu Kenmochi * ''[[Rokubanme no Sayoko]]'' (2000) *''[[Shounen wa Tori ni Natta]]'' (2001)
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Yokohama Film Festival Best Actor}} {{Hochi Film Award for Best Actor}} {{Mainichi Film Award for Best Actor}} {{Authority control}}
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