Yasuo Furuhata

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.

• Known ForDirecting
• Born19 August 1934 (age 92)
• Place of BirthMatsumoto, Nagano, Japan