# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yasuo-furuhata
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:51:10.066Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yasuo-furuhata"
name: "Yasuo Furuhata"
slug: "yasuo-furuhata"
description: "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 the Shin Abashiri Bangaichi series. 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."
tagline: "Japanese film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/3wMRWXUMVAWmgLFA4y1C60ldsTc.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1934-08-19"
deathDate: "2019-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.950906666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0299175/"
    handle:    "nm0299175"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%8D%E6%97%97%E5%BA%B7%E7%94%B7"
    title: "降旗康男"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ياسو فوروهاتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuo_Furuhata"
    title: "Yasuo Furuhata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%88_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "یاسوئو فوروهاتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuo_Furuhata"
    title: "Yasuo Furuhata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuo_Furuhata"
    title: "Yasuo Furuhata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%8D%E6%97%97%E5%BA%B7%E7%94%B7"
    title: "降旗康男"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%83%D1%80%D1%83%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%2C_%D0%AF%D1%81%D1%83%D0%BE"
    title: "Фурухата, Ясуо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3080378"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/83642"
    title: "Yasuo Furuhata"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump