(born 14 November 1968) is a Japanese

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

Career

Born in

Nagano Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,052,493 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the ...

, Furumaya was attending Nihon University when his

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, '' Shakunetsu no dojjibōru'', won the grand prize at the Pia Film Festival. That earned him a Pia Scholarship to make his first theatrical feature, ''

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'', a film that won the first Dragons and Tigers Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival and helped him get the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award in 1994. His film '' Bad Company'' won a Tiger Award and the

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Award at the 2001

Rotterdam Film Festival The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Since its foundation in 1972, it has maintained a focus on independent and experimental fi ...

. ''

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'' also was the runner-up in the competition at the 2005

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''. Furumaya is married to the actress

Miako Tadano Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the city ...

Selected filmography

* '' Shakunetsu no dojjibōru'' (灼熱のドッジボール) (1992) * ''

'' (この窓は君のもの, Kono mado wa kimi no mono) (1994) * '' Bad Company'' (まぶだち, Mabudachi) (2001) * ''

'' (さよならみどりちゃん) (2005) * ''

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'' (ホームレス中学生) (2008) * ''Killing Curriculum: Jinroh Shokei Game - Prologue'' (2015) * ''Kotera-san Climbs!'' (2020)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Furumaya, Tomoyuki Japanese film directors 1968 births Living people People from Nagano Prefecture Nihon University alumni