Yasuo Furuhata

Yasuo Furuhata (降旗 康男) 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. He won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year and 31st International Film Festival of India for Poppoya. He died 20 May 2019.

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)