Masato Furuoya

Acting

Masato Furuoya

Born — Died

1957-05-14 — 2003-03-25

Place of birth

Kanagawa, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

75 titles

Known for

The Files of the Young Kindaichi poster
7.6

A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather.

The Files of the Young Kindaichi

1995

Tales of the Bizarre poster
7.8

Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple works with Tamori as the storyteller and actors as the main characters. While horror and supernatural themes are predominant, a variety of genres like comedy and drama are also produced. Most episodes, however, have a bad ending.

Tales of the Bizarre

1990

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series

1983

Female Teacher poster
2.6

A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to scandal, blackmail and murder.

Female Teacher

1977

The Roads Men Travel poster
8.2

The series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds facing many difficult questions. It features a guard who survived a suicide mission during the war and his conflicts, rebellion, empathy and reconciliation with the younger generation born after the war.

The Roads Men Travel

1976

Virgin Road poster
7.3

To pursue her dreams, Sakurai Kazumi (Wakui Emi) quits her job and goes to New York to study jewelry design, against the objections of her naggy and stubborn but well-meaning father (Takeda Tetsuya). As part of remaking herself, she changes from spectacles to contact lenses, even though she has problems adapting to them. When she accidentally drops her contact lenses, a mysterious man helps prevent them from being stepped on, but he walks away before she can talk to him. Some years pass, and Kazumi is on a plane home after receiving a letter from her brother Taku saying their father is critically ill. She has morning sickness and has some run-ins on the plane with a sloppily-dressed man, and it is only when she drops her contacts and the man helps her in a similar way that she recognises him (Sorimachi Takashi). She chases after him and asks, "would you like to do some work (arubaito)?" It turns out that Kazumi in her last letter from New York had written that she was in a relationship with someone and that they might soon marry, but since then she has broken up with him, and she didn't want to make her father upset by coming home alone. The man, a freelance journalist named Yoshimi Kaoru, agrees to pretend to be her fiancé.

Virgin Road

1997

Film credits

2000s · 5 titles

1990s · 28 titles

Ryakudatsu ai poster
4.5

The fear of the fiercely obsessive woman who deprives her best friend of her husband. An emotionally charged movie starring Hitomi Kuroki, Masato Furuoya, and Hisako Manda.

Ryakudatsu ai

1991

Lifetime Insecurity poster
7.0

In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.

Lifetime Insecurity

1994

Endless Waltz poster
5.0

Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.

Endless Waltz

1995

All Under the Moon poster
6.9

A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.

All Under the Moon

1993

The Files of Young Kindaichi: Legend of the Shanghai Mermaid poster
7.6

Kindaichi is off on yet another case, this time in Shanghai. When the father of a Chinese friend of the young Kindaichi is murdered at the circus, it is up to the ever-resourceful and clever young high-school detective to solve the case. But hidden in the background is the 4000 year-old legend of the Shanghai Mermaid.

The Files of Young Kindaichi: Legend of the Shanghai Mermaid

1997

MARKS poster
6.0

Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later in a similar manner, he begins to suspect that something bigger is going on...

MARKS

1995

Best Guy poster
7.0

Two pilots compete to be the best jet fighter. A commander with a troublesome past, a female director who wants a good scoop, a competition that is looking for their best guy.

Best Guy

1990

Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 2 poster
NR

Sequel to 'Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf'

Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 2

1998

Organized Violence Bloody Honor 2 poster
NR

The Second Organized Violence film.

Organized Violence Bloody Honor 2

1999

Shoot! poster
5.7

The Golden Trio of junior high school soccer players, Toshi, Kenji and Kazu, enroll at the new Kakegawa High School merely because they want to play with Kubo, the legendary player who learned his superb soccer techniques in Germany and who helped the Kakegawa team, which then consisted of freshmen only, win eight place in the all-Japan....

Shoot!

1994

Passion poster
6.5

A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.

Passion

1992

Keijitachi no Natsu poster
NR

The TV movie follows a detective with a burning sense of justice who risks his life to pursue a corruption case involving the prime minister's office.

Keijitachi no Natsu

1999

The Files of Young Kindaichi: School's Seven Mysteries Murder Case poster
8.2

No synopsis available yet.

The Files of Young Kindaichi: School's Seven Mysteries Murder Case

1995

Ichigo domei poster
10.0

The story of a love triangle between two high school best friends and their cancer-stricken female classmate.

Ichigo domei

1997

Universal Laws poster
9.0

A young man working as a first-class fashion designer decides to give up his business and return to his hometown after the sudden death of his father.

Universal Laws

1990

The Files of Young Kindaichi: Snow Yaksha Legend Murder Case poster
8.0

Hajime Kindaichi is working a part time job as an assistant to a TV station for the filming of a shock show. They have invited celebrities in Segori Village and are planning to scare them by playing pranks on them such as fake deaths. However, a threatening letter arrives and soon, a real murder occurs broadcasted in front of everyone.

The Files of Young Kindaichi: Snow Yaksha Legend Murder Case

1995

Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a Scarface poster
6.5

“Gunro no keifu” is known as “Tale of a Scarface.” It follows the life of Kumoro, a yakuza member, who recently is released from prison after serving 14 years for his Family. Upon his return he finds the various yakuza syndicates on the brink of war. Kumoro is, at first, removed from the dealings of the families by his Boss, but slowly he is drawn back into his old ways.

Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a Scarface

1997

Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf poster
NR

A yakuza movie directed by Eiichi Kudo

Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf

1996

Pinch Hitter Togo Trouble #1 Skyscraper Bombing Notice! poster
NR

Original video film.

Pinch Hitter Togo Trouble #1 Skyscraper Bombing Notice!

1994

Yamada baba ni hanataba o poster
9.0

Yamada is the old mistress of a prestigious all-girl high school, who finds a natural enemy in Kamizaki, an outgoing first-year student. However, during Yamada's blind date, their bodies are inexplicably switched

Yamada baba ni hanataba o

1990

O-higara mo yoku, go-shusho sama poster
8.0

While Kazuo Tanaka eagerly practices his greetings for the big wedding the next day, his first as a matchmaker, his second daughter Hitomi prepares for her travels with her secret lover. The eldest daughter Reiko, nine months pregnant, has left her cheating husband to enter a frenzied Tanaka household. On the wedding day, Kazuo learns his father has passed away. Afraid of ruining the wedding, he asks Reiko and Hitomi to deal with the crisis. Rushing home after the ceremony, Kazuo and Kanako are faced with various problems.

O-higara mo yoku, go-shusho sama

1996

Ie Naki Ko poster
7.3

"Don't pity me, just give me money." A smart little girl, Suzu, for the sake of her beloved sick mother, has no choice but to attempt all ways to fork up the money required for the operation. It includes stealing, cheating and almost anything that could yield cash. However, deep within her is a sadness unseen by many.

Ie Naki Ko

1994

Goaisatsu poster
NR

An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.

Goaisatsu

1991

不法滞在 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

不法滞在

1996

チンピラ仁義 新・極楽とんぼ poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

チンピラ仁義 新・極楽とんぼ

1996

Complex Blue poster
NR

A naked corpse was found that had its penis amputated on a heavy rainy night. As a result of an autopsy by a medical examiner (Naomi Oki), it was determined that the criminal was the same man as the unsolved continuous murder case since last month. Detective Yajima (Masato Furuoya) and Ishigami (Koh Takasugi) immediately start an investigation, but the case goes in a surprising direction.

Complex Blue

1994

Special Traffic Task Force Battle Chase poster
NR

Traffic riot policeman Hayami is in pursuit of a certain motorbike when it tips over, killing the girlfriend of the head of the biker gang he is riding with. The motorcycle gang members begin to target Hayami's life in retaliation, and Hayami takes the fight to them single-handedly.

Special Traffic Task Force Battle Chase

1994

Firefly 2 Red Scar poster
NR

The ephemeral and vivid brilliance of three men and a woman run through Yokohama.

Firefly 2 Red Scar

1995

1980s · 20 titles

Village of Doom poster
6.7

Rejected by the military and frowned upon by his fellow villagers, a young man nicknamed 'Genius' falls into a series of dangerous love affairs during World War II.

Village of Doom

1983

Reason For Not Divorcing poster
3.0

Yoshiko Mita and Masahiko Tsugawa enthusiastically perform a couple who know each other’s affairs and affairs and still do not part with each other even after various emotional conflicts. A work that is highly supported by women.

Reason For Not Divorcing

1987

Afternoon When Flowers Fell poster
8.0

A widowed restaurateur is faced with scandal after discovering her late husband had a child out of wedlock. Hearing that two criminals had attempted to take over the restaurant from her late husband, she hires her late husband's best friend, a private detective, to investigate.

Afternoon When Flowers Fell

1989

Twilight of the Cockroaches poster
6.2

The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life.

Twilight of the Cockroaches

1987

Play it, Boogie-Woogie poster
8.0

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships.

Play it, Boogie-Woogie

1981

The Shootout poster
7.0

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...

The Shootout

1982

Cabaret poster
4.8

A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.

Cabaret

1986

Cabaret poster
4.8

A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.

Cabaret

1986

Disciples of Hippocrates poster
6.8

The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-reformist militant and his girlfriend, Ogino is starting to wonder if he's really cut out to be a doctor.

Disciples of Hippocrates

1980

Nun Story: Frustration in Black poster
4.6

A pious woman takes her vows but discovers that the nunnery is awash in sin and perversity.

Nun Story: Frustration in Black

1980

Island of the Evil Spirits poster
6.2

Renowned detective Kosuke Kindaichi is called to an island where a dying man's words lead him to investigate a series of murders connected to the 'Nue' legend and the powerful Osakabe family, who separate twins at birth.

Island of the Evil Spirits

1981

Wuthering Heights poster
6.8

Young orphan Onimaru is adopted by the wealthy Yamabe family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Kinu. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Kinu, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Mitsuhiko, a man of means who befits her stature. Onimaru vows to win her back.

Wuthering Heights

1988

Lost in the Wilderness poster
8.5

The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1970, Uemura also accomplished several "firsts". He was the first man to reach the North Pole solo, climb Denali solo, and float down the Amazon river solo. In the film, Uemura returns to Tokyo after a stint in Siorapaluk in Northern Greenland. In Tokyo, he reconnects with an old friend and, over coffee, shares his life story - from his days as a college dropout to his successful expedition to the top of Everest.

Lost in the Wilderness

1986

Hear the Wind Sing poster
6.6

A student travels back to Kobe for the summer. Once there, he meets his friend Rat, hangs on the usual place, listening to the Beach Boys and meets a mysterious twin girl.

Hear the Wind Sing

1981

The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September poster
6.0

Ryo once rode with a biker gang; ever since his friend Tetsuji died riding in September, he's retired from biking, trying to forget the past.

The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September

1982

Someday, Someone Will Be Killed poster
5.5

While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk in her possession and while being chased by unknown people, Atsuko tries to solve the mystery of her family origins.

Someday, Someone Will Be Killed

1984

Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma

1986

The Thief and the Expelled Master poster
NR

The original novel is by Shugoro Yamamoto. It depicts a friendship that transcends social status and age, featuring the captivating monologue by Kunie Tanaka and moving expressions of the soul. When the thief Denkuro (Tanaka Kunie) sneaks into a dilapidated mansion, he finds a young samurai (Furuoya Masato) sleeping there. Despite being threatened, the young samurai remains unfazed and helps Denkuro when he falls into a hole in the floor. Denkuro receives a pair of straw sandals from the young samurai who says he hasn't eaten anything for three days, and the next morning Denkuro goes out to buy food and prepare breakfast. From that day on, Denkuro takes care of the naive and helpless young samurai, nicknamed "Nobusan."

The Thief and the Expelled Master

1987

Katana poster
3.0

An antique sword exposes tension between three siblings.

Katana

1986

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!

1984

1970s · 7 titles

Female Teacher poster
2.6

A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to scandal, blackmail and murder.

Female Teacher

1977

Angel Guts: Nami poster
5.5

While investigating stories of rape for a magazine article, a determined but callous reporter becomes perversely aroused as she meets the women who are suffering through the horror of their experiences. But will she suffer their fate if she goes too far?

Angel Guts: Nami

1979

Rape and Death of a Housewife poster
6.5

Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.

Rape and Death of a Housewife

1978

Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82 poster
6.0

Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous "Gator Branch.” When an executive board member of a trading company is accused of being involved in a bribery, Mika is assigned to keep watch over him. A few nights later her target is found dead outside of his 30 floor office building. With an apparent suicide note as evidence, local police conclude the case as a suicide. Mika’s assignment may have ended in failure, but her mission has just begun...

Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82

1979

Apartment Wife: Lust for an Orgasm poster
3.7

Taeko, a married woman who wants to get out of the housing complex as soon as possible, meets Aono, the leader of a motorcycle gang, and sees his youthful body and feels something lewd burn inside her. Aono took his then girlfriend Taeko to a snack bar where her friends Ken and Rumi hang out. That night was a game day, and Rumi was surrounded by a crowd of men... Depicts a woman who will give up everything for her long-awaited home.

Apartment Wife: Lust for an Orgasm

1979

Apartment Wife: Violated Skin poster
3.7

A nightmare that suddenly attacks an ordinary housewife: rape. However, the real nightmare was the threat that began because the information was being wiretapped. And the housewife uses her own body as a weapon to confront her blackmailer, but...

Apartment Wife: Violated Skin

1977

September Sky poster
6.0

Kobayashi Isamu, a first-year high school student, lives in a family of four with his father, an artist, his mother, an insurance agent, and his sister, an office worker. To make ends meet, he works as a milkman. At school, he is a member of the kendo club and spends his days working out with his seniors. Over time, he has various encounters with a series of girls.

September Sky

1978

Series credits

The Files of the Young Kindaichi poster
7.6

A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather.

The Files of the Young Kindaichi

1995

Tales of the Bizarre poster
7.8

Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple works with Tamori as the storyteller and actors as the main characters. While horror and supernatural themes are predominant, a variety of genres like comedy and drama are also produced. Most episodes, however, have a bad ending.

Tales of the Bizarre

1990

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series

1983

The Roads Men Travel poster
8.2

The series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds facing many difficult questions. It features a guard who survived a suicide mission during the war and his conflicts, rebellion, empathy and reconciliation with the younger generation born after the war.

The Roads Men Travel

1976

Virgin Road poster
7.3

To pursue her dreams, Sakurai Kazumi (Wakui Emi) quits her job and goes to New York to study jewelry design, against the objections of her naggy and stubborn but well-meaning father (Takeda Tetsuya). As part of remaking herself, she changes from spectacles to contact lenses, even though she has problems adapting to them. When she accidentally drops her contact lenses, a mysterious man helps prevent them from being stepped on, but he walks away before she can talk to him. Some years pass, and Kazumi is on a plane home after receiving a letter from her brother Taku saying their father is critically ill. She has morning sickness and has some run-ins on the plane with a sloppily-dressed man, and it is only when she drops her contacts and the man helps her in a similar way that she recognises him (Sorimachi Takashi). She chases after him and asks, "would you like to do some work (arubaito)?" It turns out that Kazumi in her last letter from New York had written that she was in a relationship with someone and that they might soon marry, but since then she has broken up with him, and she didn't want to make her father upset by coming home alone. The man, a freelance journalist named Yoshimi Kaoru, agrees to pretend to be her fiancé.

Virgin Road

1997

金田一少年事件簿-堂本刚版 poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

金田一少年事件簿-堂本刚版

1995

Stairway to Heaven poster
NR

A past he wants to take back. A past that will never go away. Twenty-seven years ago Keiichi Kashiwagi lost his father to suicide after the rich and powerful Esei Group took over the family ranch, and Keiichi’s beloved Akiko married into the Esei family. Keiichi then swore he would have his revenge. Now, Keiichi is head of his own corporation and running for office in the same electorate as Tatsuya Esei, the man who took Akiko from him long ago. Having fallen on hard times, Tatsuya is trying to marry his daughter Matsue into another rich corporate family, but Akiko remembers her own loveless marriage with remorse and refuses to have her daughter share the same fate. In the middle of this, Keiichi’s past rears its ugly head, leading to murder and blackmail. Betrayal and revenge are tempered with the tenderness of love in this gripping suspense.

Stairway to Heaven

2002

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Woman With Many Wounds

1999

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

LOVE&PEACE

1998

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Saigo no Kazoku

2001

One Way Ticket to Love poster
NR

Narumi (Esumi), a "trouble-maker", returned from Brazil after 11.5 years to inform Tatsuya (Naito), a fatherly figure in her life, about her marriage. She was mistaken for Harumi (Esumi) by the people who knew Harumi, and met Mori Shinichi (Inagaki) who had a secret crush on Harumi. Cheated of her money by her fiance, she had to turn to Shinichi for help. Gradually, Shinichi developed feelings for Narumi. On the other hand, Shinichi's girlfriend Maiko became jealous of Narumi and tried hard to break up the two...

One Way Ticket to Love

1997

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

悪女A・B

1991

Forever Child poster
8.5

When three 12-year-old victims of child abuse are introduced to each other at a mental hospital, they form a bond that proves to be unbroken by personal growth and adulthood. After saving Yuki, from drowning in the ocean, Ryohei and Shoichiro consider themselves her protector....a feeling that carries over into adulthood. When the three are reunited seventeen years after meeting at the mental hospital, they find that their feelings for each other are just as strong as before. Yuki now cares for others as a nurse, Shoichiro is a controlling lawyer, and Ryohei is a career police investigator. When a body surfaces in the local river, the three are drawn into a series of murders to which they all feel powerfully connected...

Forever Child

2000

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

悪女Ⅱ サンテミリオン殺人事件

1993

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

夏樹静子サスペンス 軽井沢別荘殺人事件 夏樹静子”Cの悲劇”

2003