is a Japanese film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

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Career

Born in Nagano Prefecture

Nagano Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of the island of Honshū. The capital is the city of Nagano.- History :Nagano was formerly known as the province of Shinano...

, Furumaya was attending Nihon University

Nihon University

Nihon University is the largest university in Japan. Akiyoshi Yamada, the minister of justice, founded Nihon Law School in October 1889....

 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

Dragons and Tigers Award

VIFF Dragons and Tigers Award for Young Cinema is an award from the Vancouver International Film Festival for a film director from Asia-Pacific region. It awards a creative and innovative film, made early in the director's career, which has not yet won significant international recognition...

 at the Vancouver International Film Festival

Vancouver International Film Festival

The Vancouver International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for two weeks in late September and early October...

 and helped him get the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award

Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award

The is given annually by the Directors Guild of Japan to a new director of a film released that year who is considered the most "suitable" for the award. The winner is selected by a committee formed of DGJ members. All formats—feature film, documentary, television, video, etc.—are eligible for...

 in 1994. His film Bad Company

Mabudachi

Mabudachi is a 2001 Japanese film written and directed by Tomoyuki Furumaya. It stars Ryosuke Takahashi....

won a Tiger Award and the FIPRESCI

FIPRESCI

The International Federation of Film Critics is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in...

 Award at the 2001 Rotterdam Film Festival. Sayonara Midori-chan

Sayonara Midori-chan

is a Japanese manga by Kyūta Minami. It was adapted into a live-action film in 2005....

also was the runner-up in the competition at the 2005 Three Continents Festival

Three Continents Festival

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. He has also worked on such television programs as Mori no Asagao

Mori no Asagao

is a Japanese manga series by Mamora Gōda. It won the 11th Grand Prize for manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2007. It will be adapted into a live-action television drama in 2010.-Synopsis:...

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Furumaya is married to the actress Miako Tadano.

Selected filmography

• Shakunetsu no dojjibōru (灼熱のドッジボール) (1992)
• This Window Is Yours (この窓は君のもの, Kono mado wa kimi no mono) (1994)
• Bad Company
  Mabudachi
  Mabudachi is a 2001 Japanese film written and directed by Tomoyuki Furumaya. It stars Ryosuke Takahashi....
  
  (まぶだち, Mabudachi) (2001)
• Sayonara Midori-chan
  Sayonara Midori-chan
  is a Japanese manga by Kyūta Minami. It was adapted into a live-action film in 2005....
  
  (さよならみどりちゃん) (2005)
• The Homeless Student
  The Homeless Student
  is a 2008 Japanese film directed by Tomoyuki Furumaya.-External links:* at Midnight Eye...
  
  (ホームレス中学生) (2008)

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