Ikko Furuya
Also Known As: Kazuyuki Furuya, ふるや いっこう
Biography: Born in Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Itabashi High School , he graduated from the Faculty of Law, Chuo University. While in college, he started his acting life after completing the 16th generation of Haiyuza Training School. Since 1977, he has consistently played the role of Kosuke Kindaichi , the main character in the "Seiji Yokomizo Series /Detective Kosuke Kindaichi Series"; for 25 years from 1982 to 2007, he played the role of Sakon Taro, the main character of the "Mixed bathing open- air bath serial murder " series in "Saturday Wide Theater", and became a hit again. The eldest son is Kenji Furuya , the vocalist of Dragon Ash . His father Furuya appeared in TVCF for Dragon Ash's album " Viva La Revolution " ( 1999 ), and father and son co-starred in the movie "Letters" ( 2003 ), which Furuya starred in and produced.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: January 02, 1944
Deathday: August 23, 2022
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Gender: Male
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Hana's Miso Soup
Overview: Yasutake Shingo is a newspaper reporter whose only redeeming feature is his earnestness. He meets Matsunaga Chie, who attends a music college, and they start dating. Each day becomes all the more bright and enjoyable for Shingo because of the lively Chie. She loves to laugh, sing and eat. After one and a half years, Chie is employed as a music teacher. One day, Shingo is informed that Chie has breast cancer. After thinking about it, he decides to share a lifetime with her and proposes. His proposal gives her the courage to undergo surgery which she had been mulling over. One day, Chie starts to teach 5-year-old Hana the “important things in life” such as laundry, cleaning and cooking. She thinks that even if she is no longer around, her daughter and husband will be able to live.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-19
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13 Assassins
Overview: In between the original 1963 13 ASSASSINS film and the 2010 remake by Miike Takashi, Fuji TV produced a version for TV. Starring Nakadai Tatsuya and Natsuyagi Isao, with strong support from Tanba Tetsuro and Tanaka Ken, this is the ultimate tale of samurai justice carried out in a historical masterpiece. The shogun’s half-brother, Matsudaira Naritsugu has been slated to join the Roju Council of Elders as a senior adviser even though he is criminally insane. His outrageous acts cause one of his top retainers to commit ritual suicide in protest over his lord’s crimes. Alerted to these crimes, Roju Councilor Doi asks Inspector General Shmada Shinzaemon to assassinate Naritsugu before he can be seated on the council. Gathering a band of 13 (including himself), Shimada sets out on a death-defying journey to cut down the lord before he can reach Edo. Can a band of 13 samurai defeat the vile Naritsugu’s 200 man entourage and enact justice against his cruelty?
Genres: Action Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-28
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Asshii-tachi no machi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-03-28
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The Hirosaki Players
Overview: In the pressure-cooker of opening night, a Japanese playwright struggles with his aging, arrogant actor father for control of the play and their relationship.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-04-27
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Jazz Daimyo
Overview: Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-19
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Wandering Himeshiro
Overview: Himeshiro is a wandering yakuza, his father was the best doctor in the eight provinces of the Kanto region, and Himeshiro took over the knowledge of medicine from his father. If he encounters a sick person on the way, he uses his right hand, wrapped in a rosary, to give medical attention, while if he sees a bad person, he draws his sword with his left hand and uses it to punish the evildoers. So he travels on the verge of life and death along the Nakasendo highway...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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Photograph of Memories
Overview: A frustrated young woman returns from Tokyo to her hometown in Toyama where she meets an old woman who lives alone. There she slowly finds purpose in life by taking "photographs" that spin memories instead of ghosts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-29
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Over Your Dead Body
Overview: An actor named Kosuke plays the role of Iemon in a stage version of Yotsuya Kaiden and his new lover Miyuki plays Oiwa. However, as they delve deeper into their respective performances, the line between fantasy and reality becomes obscured until the murderous, vengeful themes of the play bleed into their own relationship.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-23
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Cab
Overview: A suspenseful story about an earnest and kind-hearted taxi driver who, by chance, turns into a violent murderer and races through the darkness of the city.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-11
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Overview: Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-14
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Master Swordsman Hirate Miki - Duel in Tone
Overview: Zoushu Hirate was the acting master of Chibashusaku Dojo in the Hokushinitto style. His wife was dead and had drunk a lot every day. For the sake of money for alcohol, he chased Kanji Amakasa who killed an office worker of Daikansho. While, Kanji hid in the house of Shigekura Sasagawa in a town along the Tone River. Sasagawa family was looking for a good swordsman for the coming fight with the Iioka family.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-17
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Legend of the Shadowy Ninja: The Ninja Dragon
Overview: The secretive realm of the world's deadliest ninja warriors is thrown into chaos as one by one, ninja clan leaders are brutally assassinated! What fiendish foe has the power to kill the most dangerous men in the world? To avenge their dead leader, three ninjas must face this hidden enemy. They'll need all their stealth and ninja trickery to survive!
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-25
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森の石松
Overview: One day, Mori no Ishimatsu (Kankuro Nakamura
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-07
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Hakuro no Shibijin
Overview: The wife of a famous resident of Kamakura awakens to carnal passion . . . And when her blood cools down it's because she's been murdered!
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-04-26
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Undercover Geisha
Overview: Osome is a geisha and spy in the Tokugawa period. When she was very young she lost her family to a terrible fire and continues to search for her surviving brother. Along her journey she discovers much of her family history and gains new friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-10-14
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Legal High 2 SP
Overview: Attorneys Kensuke Komikado and Machiko Mayuzumi receive a request from a general hospital. They go up against veteran attorney Kazuma Kujou who is trying to extract money from the general hospital by a medical malpractice lawsuit.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-22
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Morning Moon Is Cruel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-06-21
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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Overview: A police detective Shoukokuji Ryuuya from the first section of Metropolitan Police Department is tasked to investigate the murder case of a woman which takes place at a grand party held by a big-time actress but faces the hurdle of finding the true culprit among the large pool of suspects.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-25
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Matinee
Overview: Satoshi Makino is a genius classical guitarist. One day, he meets journalist Yoko Komine. They become attracted to each other, but Yoko Komine has a fiancé.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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The Shootout
Overview: A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly desperate as events spin out of control, culminating in an audacious hijack at sea...
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-09-15
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Sensen fukoku
Overview: War between North Korea and Japan
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-05
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Vietnam no dâchan
Overview: A Japanese journalist reunites with a girl who lost her family in the Vietnam War
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-29
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テレサ・テン物語～私の家は山の向こう
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Original Language: ja
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The Summit of Mt. Fuji
Overview: The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese archipelago, but the task will not be easy.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-28
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Kazu no Fūkei
Overview: Suspense TV movie based on the novel by Seicho Matsumoto, starring Ikko Furuya.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-30
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