Yasuo Furuhata

{{Short description|Japanese film director (1934–2019)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Yasuo Furuhata | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1934|8|19}} | birth_place = Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan | death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|5|20|1934|8|19|df=y}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Film director | years_active = | spouse = | website = }} {{nihongo|'''Yasuo Furuhata'''|降旗康男|Furuhata Yasuo|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%99%8D%E6%97%97%E5%BA%B7%E7%94%B7-621973|title=降旗康男|publisher=kotobank|accessdate=27 December 2020}}</ref> He won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year and 31st International Film Festival of India for ''Poppoya''.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/prizes/?t=23|script-title= ja:第 23 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品|access-date= 2010-12-16|language= ja|publisher= Japan Academy Prize|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141031043947/http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/prizes/?t=23|archive-date= 2014-10-31}}</ref> He died 20 May 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|title=降旗康男監督死去岡田准一主演「追憶」撮了後にパーキンソン病発症/デイリースポーツ online|url=https://www.daily.co.jp/gossip/2019/05/26/0012368405.shtml|access-date=2020-11-24|website=デイリースポーツ online|language=ja}}</ref>

==Filmography== * ''Hikō Shōjo Yōko'' (1966) * ''Jigoku no okite ni asu wa nai'' (1966) * ''Chôeki jûhachi-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 Tanjô'' (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 Riyû'' (1987) * ''Shogun's Shadow'' (1989) * ''Buddies'' (1989) * ''Yakuza Ladies 3'' (1989) * ''Isan Sôzoku'' (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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==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0299175|name=Yasuo Furuhata}} * [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0372180.htm Yasuo Furuhata's JMDb Listing (in Japanese)] {{Yasuo Furuhata}} {{Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year}}

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