Masato Furuoya Explained

Masato Furuoya
Native Name:	古尾谷雅人
Birth Date:	14 May 1957
Birth Place:	Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Death Place:	Tokyo, Japan
Death Cause:	Suicide by hanging
Native Name Lang:	ja
Occupation:	Actor
Years Active:	1977–2003
Spouse:	Eri Kanuma

was a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 2nd Yokohama Film Festival and at the 5th Hochi Film Award for Disciples of Hippocrates^[1] ^[2] and at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for Uchū no hōsoku.^[3] He committed suicide on March 25, 2003, by hanging himself at his home in Tokyo.^[4]

Filmography

Film

Onna kyôshi (1977) – Hideo Egawa
Hitozuma shudan boko chishi jiken (1978) – Shozo Utagawa
Tenshi no harawata: Nami (1979) – Man who attacked Ryoko
Sûpâ gun redei Wani Bunsho (1979) – Makoto Katô, Robber of bank
Danchizuma nikuyoku no tousui (1979) – Shûichi Aono
Shûdôjo: Kokui no naka no uzuki (1980) – Hirohi Mitamura
Disciples of Hippocrates (1980) – Ogino, Aisaku
Slow na boogie ni shitekure (1981) – Goro
Akuryo-To (1981) – Goro Mitsuki
Kaze no uta o kike (1982) – Punk
Kugatsu no joudan kurabu bando (1982) – Moro
Kyôdan (1982) – Akihiko Numata
Ushimitsu no mura (1983) – Tsugio Inumaru
Itsuka darekaga korosareru (1984) – Kazuo Takara
Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma (1986) – Shujiro Hirai
Kyabarê (1986) – Sajima
Lost in the Wilderness (1986) – Masao Ogawa
Ôidippsu no katana (1986) – Shunsuke Osako
Oedipus no yaiba (1986) – Shunsuke Osako
Wakarenu riyû (1987) – Matsunaga
Gokiburi-tachi no tasogare (1987) – Hans (voice)
Wuthering Heights (1988) – Yoshimaru
Hana no Furu Gogo (1989)
Uchū no hōsoku (1990) – Yoshiaki Masaki
Pachinko monogatari (1990)
Yamada babaa ni hanataba o (1990) – Yuji Mizuzawa
Best Guy (1990) – Major Nobuaki "Zombie/Demon" Yoshinaga
Satsujin ga ippai (1991)
Ryakudatsu ai (1991)
All Under the Moon (1993) – Konno
Shoot (1994) – Teacher Isogai
Ie naki ko (1994)
Mâkusu no yama (1995) – Higo
Endoresu warutsu (1995) – Motoharu Yoshizawa
Fuhô-taizai (1996)
Kindaichi shonen no jikembo: Shanghai ningyo densetsu (1997)
Mamotte agetai! (2000) – Shinji Tachibana
Howaitoauto (2000) – Kensuke Fujimaki

Television

The Kindaichi Case Files (1995) – Isamu Kenmochi
Rokubanme no Sayoko (2000)
Shounen wa Tori ni Natta (2001)

Notes and References

Web site: 第２回ヨコハマ映画祭１９８０年日本映画個人賞. 2010-12-12. Japanese. Yokohama Film Festival. https://web.archive.org/web/20151208070729/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/02-1980/02_1980_shou.html. 2015-12-08. dead.
Web site: 報知映画賞ヒストリー . 2010-12-12 . Japanese . Cinema Hochi . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111005192353/http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1980/ . 2011-10-05 .
Web site: 第１２回ヨコハマ映画祭１９９０年日本映画個人賞. 2010-12-12. Japanese. Yokohama Film Festival. https://web.archive.org/web/20120928063426/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/12-1990/12_1990_shou.html. 2012-09-28. dead.
Web site: 2003-04-17 . いったいなぜ？俳優の古尾谷雅人さんが自殺 . 2024-06-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20030417015107/http://www.sanspo.com/geino/top/gt200303/gt2003032601.html . 2003-04-17 . ja.