Yasuo Furuhata ( 降 降 康 男 男 : Furuhata Yasuo ) (August 19, 1934, Matsumoto, Japan - May 20, 2019) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter .
| Yasuo Furuhata | |
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| 降旗 康 男 | |
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| Place of Birth | Matsumoto , Japan |
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| Citizenship |  Japan |
| Profession | film director , screenwriter |
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Biography
Yasuo Furuhata is the third son of the famous politician and businessman Tokui Furuhata (1898 - 1995), the former Minister of Telecommunications in the post-war office of Shigeru Yoshida . [2]
After graduating from the Department of French Literature at the University of Tokyo , in 1957, Yasuo Furuhata entered the Toei Studio. Three years later, he made his debut as a director with the movie "Yoko Hooligan" with in the title role, after which he became one of the studio's leading genre directors.
Furuhata is known for many years of collaboration with Japanese actor Ken Takakura . The first acquaintance with Takakura took place in 1965 on the set near Kiyoshi Saeki. Later they will make 11 films together, after leaving Furuhata from Toei Studios in 1978, eight more. The last of these films (“ ”) was released in the fall of 2012.
The filmography of Yasuo Furuhata has more than forty paintings. Winner of many national and international awards, including the prize for directing the Japanese Film Academy (for the picture " ", 2000) and the prize of the ecumenical jury of the Montreal Film Festival (for the picture "For You", 2012). [3] Furuhata's film “Friends” (A un, 1989) Akira Kurosawa was included in the list of his hundred favorite films. [4] In 2008, the director was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun.
Filmography
- Demon (Yasha) (1985)
- Friends (A un) (1989)
- Shadow of the overlord (Shôgun Iemitsu no ranshin - Gekitotsu) (1989)
- The Railwayman (Poppoya) (1999)
- Firefly (Hotaru) (2001)
- Red Moon (Akai tsuki) (2004)
- Harassed Samurai (Tsukigami) (2007)
- For you (Anata e) (2012)
- A Boy Called A (A Boy Called H) (2013)
Notes
- ↑ https://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/201905260001198.html
- ↑ Yasuo Furuhata Something about Japanese cinema (October 19, 2012).
- ↑ Yasuo Furuhata . Moscow International Film Festival .
- ↑ Akira Kurosawa's 100 Favorite Films of All-Time . The Film Stage (August 6, 2014).
Links
- Yasuo Furuhata on the Internet Movie Database