# Masato Furuoya

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Japanese actor (1957–2003)

Masato Furuoya 古尾谷 雅人 Born (1957-05-14)May 14, 1957 Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan Died March 25, 2003(2003-03-25) (aged 45) Tokyo, Japan Cause of death Suicide by hanging Occupation Actor Years active 1977–2003 Spouse Eri Kanuma

**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](/source/Yokohama_Film_Festival) and at the 5th [Hochi Film Award](/source/Hochi_Film_Award) for *[Disciples of Hippocrates](/source/Disciples_of_Hippocrates)*[1][2] and at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for *[Uchū no hōsoku](/source/Uch%C5%AB_no_h%C5%8Dsoku)*.[3] He committed suicide on March 25, 2003, by hanging himself at his home in [Tokyo](/source/Tokyo).[4]

## Filmography

### Film

- *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](/source/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](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ushimitsu_no_mura&action=edit&redlink=1)* (1983) – [Tsugio Inumaru](/source/Tsuyama_massacre#Perpetrator)

- *Itsuka darekaga korosareru* (1984) – Kazuo Takara

- *Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma* (1986) – Shujiro Hirai

- *Kyabarê* (1986) – Sajima

- *[Lost in the Wilderness](/source/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](/source/Wuthering_Heights_(1988_film))* (1988) – Yoshimaru

- *[Hana no Furu Gogo](/source/Hana_no_Furu_Gogo_(film))* (1989)

- *[Uchū no hōsoku](/source/Uch%C5%AB_no_h%C5%8Dsoku)* (1990) – Yoshiaki Masaki

- *Pachinko monogatari* (1990)

- *Yamada babaa ni hanataba o* (1990) – Yuji Mizuzawa

- *[Best Guy](/source/Best_Guy)* (1990) – Major Nobuaki "Zombie/Demon" Yoshinaga

- *Satsujin ga ippai* (1991)

- *Ryakudatsu ai* (1991)

- *[All Under the Moon](/source/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

### Television

- *[The Kindaichi Case Files](/source/The_Kindaichi_Case_Files)* (1995) – Isamu Kenmochi

- *[Rokubanme no Sayoko](/source/Rokubanme_no_Sayoko)* (2000)

- *[Shounen wa Tori ni Natta](/source/Shounen_wa_Tori_ni_Natta)* (2001)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["第２回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９８０年日本映画個人賞"](https://web.archive.org/web/20151208070729/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/02-1980/02_1980_shou.html) (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Archived from [the original](http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/02-1980/02_1980_shou.html) on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2010-12-12.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["報知映画賞ヒストリー"](https://web.archive.org/web/20111005192353/http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1980/) (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from [the original](http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1980/) on 2011-10-05. Retrieved 2010-12-12.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["第１２回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９９０年日本映画個人賞"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120928063426/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/12-1990/12_1990_shou.html) (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Archived from [the original](http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/12-1990/12_1990_shou.html) on 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2010-12-12.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["いったいなぜ？俳優の古尾谷雅人さんが自殺"](https://web.archive.org/web/20030417015107/http://www.sanspo.com/geino/top/gt200303/gt2003032601.html) (in Japanese). 2003-04-17. Archived from [the original](http://www.sanspo.com/geino/top/gt200303/gt2003032601.html) on 2003-04-17. Retrieved 2024-06-16.

v t e Yokohama Film Festival Award for Best Actor Ken Ogata (1980) Masato Furuoya (1981) Toshiyuki Nagashima (1982) Ryudo Uzaki (1983) Yūsaku Matsuda (1984) Takeshi Kaga (1985) Minori Terada (1986) Koichi Iwaki (1987) Saburō Tokitō (1988) Hiroyuki Sanada (1989) Ryo Ishibashi (1990) Masato Furuoya (1991) Hidekazu Akai (1992) Masahiro Motoki (1993) Hiroyuki Sanada (1994) Eiji Okuda (1995) Etsushi Toyokawa (1996) Koji Yakusho / Tadanobu Asano (1997) Yoshio Harada (1998) Kiichi Nakai / Claude Maki (1999) Ken Takakura (2000) Tadanobu Asano (2001) Yōsuke Kubozuka (2002) Kyōzō Nagatsuka / Seiichi Tanabe (2003) Satoshi Tsumabuki (2004) Koji Yakusho (2005) Joe Odagiri (2006) Teruyuki Kagawa (2007) Ryo Kase (2008) Kaoru Kobayashi (2009) Masato Sakai (2010) Etsushi Toyokawa (2011) Eita (2012) Hiroshi Abe (2013) Masaharu Fukuyama (2014) Go Ayano (2015) Kiyohiko Shibukawa / Masatoshi Nagase (2016) Tomokazu Miura / Yuya Yagira (2017) Sosuke Ikematsu (2018) Masahiro Higashide / Koji Yakusho (2019) Sosuke Ikematsu (2020) Kazunari Ninomiya (2021) Arata Furuta / Tori Matsuzaka (2022) Kōji Seto (2023) Ryohei Suzuki (2024) Taiga Nakano / Koji Yakusho (2025) Ryo Yoshizawa / Ryusei Yokohama (2026)

v t e Hochi Film Award for Best Actor Tatsuya Fuji (1976) Ken Takakura (1977) Ken Ogata (1978) Kenji Sawada (1979) Masato Furuoya (1980) Toshiyuki Nagashima (1981) Mitsuru Hirata (1982) Yūsaku Matsuda (1983) Saburō Tokitō (1984) Kin'ya Kitaōji (1985) Yuya Uchida (1986) Takanori Jinnai (1987) Hiroyuki Sanada (1988) Rentarō Mikuni (1989) Bunta Sugawara (1990) Masatoshi Nagase (1991) Masahiro Motoki (1992) Ken Tanaka (1993) Kenichi Hagiwara (1994) Hiroyuki Sanada (1995) Koji Yakusho (1996) Koji Yakusho (1997) Akira Emoto (1998) Tomokazu Miura (1999) Yūji Oda (2000) Yosuke Kubozuka (2001) Seiichi Tanabe (2002) Toshiyuki Nishida (2003) Satoshi Tsumabuki (2004) Ichikawa Somegorō VII (2005) Ken Watanabe (2006) Ryo Kase (2007) Shinichi Tsutsumi (2008) Ken Watanabe (2009) Etsushi Toyokawa (2010) Masato Sakai (2011) Ken Takakura (2012) Ryuhei Matsuda (2013) Junichi Okada (2014) Kōichi Satō (2015) Tomokazu Miura (2016) Masaki Suda (2017) Koji Yakusho (2018) Kiichi Nakai (2019) Shun Oguri (2020) Takuya Kimura (2021) Masaharu Fukuyama (2022) Ryusei Yokohama (2023) Ryusei Yokohama (2024) Ryo Yoshizawa (2025)

v t e Mainichi Film Award for Best Actor Masayuki Mori (1947) Chishū Ryū (1948) Takashi Shimura (1949) Shin Saburi (1950) Chishū Ryū (1951) Shin Saburi (1952) Ken Uehara (1953) So Yamamura (1954) Hisaya Morishige (1955) Keiji Sada (1956) Toshiro Mifune (1957) Keiju Kobayashi (1958) Eiji Funakoshi (1959) Keiju Kobayashi (1960) Tatsuya Nakadai (1961) Taiji Tonoyama (1962) Keiju Kobayashi (1963) Kō Nishimura (1964) Rentarō Mikuni (1965) Shoichi Ozawa (1966) Kunie Tanaka (1967) Minori Terada (1968) Kiyoshi Atsumi (1969) Hisashi Igawa (1970) Shintaro Katsu (1971) Takeo Chii (1972) Tetsurō Tamba (1973) Rentarō Mikuni (1974) Shin Saburi (1975) Tetsuya Watari (1976) Ken Takakura (1977) Ken Ogata (1978) Tomisaburo Wakayama (1979) Tatsuya Nakadai (1980) Takahiro Tamura (1981) Kō Nishimura (1982) Ken Ogata (1983) Tsutomu Yamazaki (1984) Kin'ya Kitaōji (1985) Eiji Okuda (1986) Masahiko Tsugawa (1987) Hajime Hana (1988) Rentarō Mikuni (1989) Masato Furuoya (1990) Masatoshi Nagase (1991) Kyōzō Nagatsuka (1992) Gorō Kishitani (1993) Eiji Okuda (1994) Koji Yakusho (1995) Koji Yakusho (1996) Yoshio Harada (1997) Masahiro Motoki (1998) Keiju Kobayashi (1999) Tadanobu Asano (2000) Tatsuya Mihashi (2001) Hiroyuki Sanada (2002) Toshiyuki Nishida (2003) Takeshi Kitano (2004) Tadanobu Asano (2005) Kōichi Satō (2006) Taichi Kokubun (2007) Hiroshi Abe (2008) Kenichi Matsuyama (2009) Shinichi Tsutsumi (2010) Mirai Moriyama (2011) Isao Natsuyagi (2012) Ryuhei Matsuda (2013) Go Ayano (2014) Shinya Tsukamoto (2015) Masahiro Motoki (2016) Masaki Suda (2017) Tasuku Emoto (2018) Ryo Narita (2019) Mirai Moriyama (2020) Takeru Satoh (2021) Kenji Sawada (2022) Ryohei Suzuki (2023)

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