Director

Tomoyuki Furumaya

Directing

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Directed movies: 17Directed series: 11All crew credits: 32

TMDB ID: 133161

IMDb ID: nm0299197

Known for: Directing

Born: November 14, 1968

Age: 57

Place of birth: Shiojiri, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1992 - 2024

Years active: 33

Average TMDB rating: 6.7

Wikidata: Q7820336

Also known as

Furumaya Tomoyuki

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Director (25)Assistant Director (2)Series Director (1)Writer (2)Producer (1)Screenplay (1)

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Biography

Tomoyuki Furumaya is a Japanese film director. Born in Nagano Prefecture, Furumaya was attending Nihon University when his 16mm film, Shakunetsu no dojjibōru, won the grand prize at the Pia Film Festival. That earned him a Pia Scholarship to make his first theatrical feature, This Window Is Yours, 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 FIPRESCI Award at the 2001 Rotterdam Film Festival. Sayonara Midori-chan also was the runner-up in the competition at the 2005 Three Continents Festival. He has also worked on such television programs as Mori no Asagao. Furumaya is married to actress Miako Tadano.