Ikko Furuya
Know for: Acting
Born: 1944-01-02
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Also know as:
Hana's Miso Soup (2015)
Yasutake Shingo is a newspaper reporter whose only redeeming feature is his earnestness. He meets Matsunaga Chie, who attends a music college, and...
13 Assassins (1990)
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...
The Hirosaki Players (2010)
In the pressure-cooker of opening night, a Japanese playwright struggles with his aging, arrogant actor father for control of the play and their...
Jazz Daimyo (1986)
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.
Wandering Himeshiro (1982)
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...
Photograph of Memories (2021)
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...
Over Your Dead Body (2014)
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...
Cab (1996)
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...
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979)
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known...
Master Swordsman Hirate Miki - Duel in Tone (1997)
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...
Legend of the Shadowy Ninja: The Ninja Dragon (1990)
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...
森の石松 (1992)
One day, Mori no Ishimatsu (Kankuro Nakamura
Hakuro no Shibijin (2004)
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!
Undercover Geisha (2003)
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...
Legal High 2 SP (2014)
Attorneys Kensuke Komikado and Machiko Mayuzumi receive a request from a general hospital. They go up against veteran attorney Kazuma Kujou who is...
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (2018)
A police detective Shoukokuji Ryuuya from the first section of Metropolitan Police Department is tasked to investigate the murder case of a woman...
Matinee (2019)
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...
The Shootout (1982)
A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly...
Sensen fukoku (2002)
War between North Korea and Japan
Vietnam no dâchan (1994)
A Japanese journalist reunites with a girl who lost her family in the Vietnam War
The Summit of Mt. Fuji (1970)
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...
Kazu no Fūkei (1991)
Suspense TV movie based on the novel by Seicho Matsumoto, starring Ikko Furuya.