Yasuo Furuhata

Directing - Born Aug 19, 1934 in Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan - Died May 20, 2019

Yasuo Furuhata 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.