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Tomoyuki Furumaya

Tomoyuki Furumaya

Directing

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.

Known For

Sayonara Midori-chan
5.4

Naive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a neighborhood cafe. Attracted to her manager there, the shallow but charming Yutaka, she willingly succumbs to his lascivious advances only to discover afterward that he already has a girlfriend by the name of Midori. Even so, Yuko's feelings for Yutaka continue to grow regardless of his aloofness. Before long she finds herself reluctantly cajoled into working as a hostess in a small karaoke bar. Fatalistically accepting his dalliances with flames old and new, she perseveres not so much in hope of a more substantial relationship, but rather out of fear of losing him. There are other men out there waiting for her -- kinder, more considerate and eagerly available. But for Yuko, there is only the non-committal, yet torridly magnetic Yutaka. Why him? Not even Yuko seems to know the answer.

Sayonara Midori-chan

2005Movie