Takumi Furukawa

Directing

Takumi Furukawa

Born — Died

1917-03-27 — 2018-10-04

Place of birth

Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

29 titles

Takumi Furukawa was a Japanese film director. He is most known for directing Season of the Sun in 1956, which was a box office success and helped launch the career of Yujiro Ishihara. At the end of his career Furukawa, a.k.a. Tai Kao-Mei (Chinese), directed two films in Hong Kong and dramas for television.

Known for

Cruel Gun Story poster
6.7

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?

Cruel Gun Story

1964

Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha poster
10.0

1962 Japanese movie

Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha

1962

Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami

1962

The Fugitive poster
NR

An action drama similar to Wyler's "The Desperate Hours", adapted by Seiji Hoshikawa of "Tasogare no Tokyo Tower" based on Shinji Fujiwara's original work. Jiro, who had been unable to rehabilitate because of the stigma of having criminal record, stopped by at his favorite bar. There, Shimamoto was waiting for him, and Jiro was offered a job to carry certain things. Jiro was attracted by the large amount of reward and finally accepted the task. The car driven by Jiro was investigated by a police officer on the way, but Shimamoto shooted the police officer and orders to help Jiro escape at full speed...

The Fugitive

1959

Bodyguard from Hell poster
NR

Kitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the situation of drug trafficking around Yokohama.

Bodyguard from Hell

1955

大学の暴れん坊 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

大学の暴れん坊

1959

Behind the camera

Cruel Gun Story poster
6.7

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?

Cruel Gun Story

1964

Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha poster
10.0

1962 Japanese movie

Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha

1962

Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami

1962

The Fugitive poster
NR

An action drama similar to Wyler's "The Desperate Hours", adapted by Seiji Hoshikawa of "Tasogare no Tokyo Tower" based on Shinji Fujiwara's original work. Jiro, who had been unable to rehabilitate because of the stigma of having criminal record, stopped by at his favorite bar. There, Shimamoto was waiting for him, and Jiro was offered a job to carry certain things. Jiro was attracted by the large amount of reward and finally accepted the task. The car driven by Jiro was investigated by a police officer on the way, but Shimamoto shooted the police officer and orders to help Jiro escape at full speed...

The Fugitive

1959

Bodyguard from Hell poster
NR

Kitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the situation of drug trafficking around Yokohama.

Bodyguard from Hell

1955

Bodyguard from Hell poster
NR

Kitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the situation of drug trafficking around Yokohama.

Bodyguard from Hell

1955

大学の暴れん坊 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

大学の暴れん坊

1959

大学の暴れん坊 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

大学の暴れん坊

1959

Season of the Sun poster
6.6

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend their nights getting into brawls. In particular, it focuses upon Tatsuya, a sullen young man, who falls in love with Eiko, a proud upper-class girl.

Season of the Sun

1956

Season of the Sun poster
6.6

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend their nights getting into brawls. In particular, it focuses upon Tatsuya, a sullen young man, who falls in love with Eiko, a proud upper-class girl.

Season of the Sun

1956

Kiss and Kill poster
7.7

A military plane carrying a nuclear load explodes mid-air after being hit by mysterious electronic rays. Sculptor Liang Tien Hong (Paul Chang Chung) discovers the ray was invented by his uncle and he must find it before Communist agents steal it for their own nefarious purposes.

Kiss and Kill

1967

Jūdan no arashi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Jūdan no arashi

1962

Black Falcon poster
5.0

Zhang Shijie is an international spy, like James Bond, and has to seduce Julie Tan, the daughter of an organization’s leader in order to find their headquarters.

Black Falcon

1967

Black Falcon poster
5.0

Zhang Shijie is an international spy, like James Bond, and has to seduce Julie Tan, the daughter of an organization’s leader in order to find their headquarters.

Black Falcon

1967

Umi wa kurutte iru poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Umi wa kurutte iru

1959

Ashita ni Mukatte Tsuppashire poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ashita ni Mukatte Tsuppashire

1961

Ashita ni Mukatte Tsuppashire poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ashita ni Mukatte Tsuppashire

1961

Vanished Glory poster
NR

In the first group of Yoshitake Ichi and Taketatsu Sada Preparatory Training, the team leader was Sou Adachi, a veteran warrior with strict training. Yoshitake's father was called, and his mother lived in the house where he used to work, but Midori, a female student at that house, secretly loved Yoshitake.

Vanished Glory

1955

Vanished Glory poster
NR

In the first group of Yoshitake Ichi and Taketatsu Sada Preparatory Training, the team leader was Sou Adachi, a veteran warrior with strict training. Yoshitake's father was called, and his mother lived in the house where he used to work, but Midori, a female student at that house, secretly loved Yoshitake.

Vanished Glory

1955

Human Torpedoes Attack poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Human Torpedoes Attack

1956

Human Torpedoes Attack poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Human Torpedoes Attack

1956

City with Beasts poster
NR

Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm.

City with Beasts

1958

Gyakukōsen poster
NR

Reiko, a free-spirited college girl not bound by social conventions, ends up having an affair with an older, married man even though she already has a boyfriend.

Gyakukōsen

1956

Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou

1963

Umi no taka poster
NR

Katsuragi Hideo was a student at a maritime university when, just before setting off on a long voyage, he found out that his family's agency was on the verge of going bankrupt, due to harassment from a new company run by the yakuza. Conflict breaks out between the companies, and Hideo fights for his family, who had finally managed to find new work.

Umi no taka

1963

Okinawa no Tami poster
NR

With the background of the Battle of Okinawa, he draws a semi-documentary image of each individual person under an unusual psychological state of war. Furukawa Takumi of “Backlight” is adapted and directed by Daiichi Ishino. Filmed by Yoshio Mamiya, “Smuggling of the body”. The main performers are Sachiko Sakai since the “Zoi Family”, Hiroyuki Nagato of the “Next door bride”, Shoji Yasui of the “Sentimental wife”, Takatoko of “Crying, the last Japanese fighter”, “Blue angry” Noriko Katsura, Shinzo three of "actress (1956)", Masao Oda, Nobuo Kaneko, Toru Abe, Hiroshi Nihonyanagi, Misako Tsubouchi.

Okinawa no Tami

1956

Okinawa no Tami poster
NR

With the background of the Battle of Okinawa, he draws a semi-documentary image of each individual person under an unusual psychological state of war. Furukawa Takumi of “Backlight” is adapted and directed by Daiichi Ishino. Filmed by Yoshio Mamiya, “Smuggling of the body”. The main performers are Sachiko Sakai since the “Zoi Family”, Hiroyuki Nagato of the “Next door bride”, Shoji Yasui of the “Sentimental wife”, Takatoko of “Crying, the last Japanese fighter”, “Blue angry” Noriko Katsura, Shinzo three of "actress (1956)", Masao Oda, Nobuo Kaneko, Toru Abe, Hiroshi Nihonyanagi, Misako Tsubouchi.

Okinawa no Tami

1956

Satsujin-sha o oe poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Satsujin-sha o oe

1962

Bōkyō no umi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Bōkyō no umi

1962