Yasuo Furuhata

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 Shin Abashiri Bangaichi.^[1] He won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year and 31st International Film Festival of India for Poppoya.^[2] He died 20 May 2019.^[3]

Yasuo Furuhata
Born	(1934-08-19)19 August 1934 Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
Died	20 May 2019(2019-05-20) (aged 84)
Occupation	Film director

Selected Filmography

• Hikō Shōjo Yōko (1966)
• Boss in a Jail (1968)
• Gendai Yakuza: Yotamono Jingi (1969)
• Rise and Fall of Yakuza (1970)
• Winter's Flower (1978)
• Nihon no Fixer (1979)
• Eki (1981)
• Shikake-nin Baian (1981)
• Izakaya Chōji (1983)
• Yasha (1985)
• Shogun's Shadow (1989)
• Buddies (1989)
• Tasmania Monogatari (1990)
• Kura (1995)
• Poppoya (1999)
• The Firefly (2001)
• Akai Tsuki (2004)
• Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)
• Anata e (2012)
• A Boy Called H (2013)
• Reminiscences (2017)