Ikko Furuya
Birthday: 1944-01-02
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Born in Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Itabashi High School , he graduated from the Faculty of Law, Chuo University. While in college, he started his acting life after completing the 16th generation of Haiyuza Training School. Since 1977, he has consistently played the role of Kosuke Kindaichi , the main character in the "Seiji Yokomizo Series /Detective Kosuke Kindaichi Series"; for 25 years from 1982 to 2007, he played the role of Sakon Taro, the main character of the "Mixed bathing open- air bath serial murder " series in "Saturday Wide Theater", and became a hit again. The eldest son is Kenji Furuya , the vocalist of Dragon Ash . His father Furuya appeared in TVCF for Dragon Ash's album " Viva La Revolution " ( 1999 ), and father and son co-starred in the movie "Letters" ( 2003 ), which Furuya starred in and produced.
Movies
Hana's Miso Soup
Yasutake Shingo is a newspaper reporter whose only redeeming feature is his earnestness. He meets Ma...
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13 Assassins
Gathering a band of 13, Inspector General Shmada Shinzaemon sets out on a death-defying journey to c...
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The Hirosaki Players
In the pressure-cooker of opening night, a Japanese playwright struggles with his aging, arrogant ac...
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Jazz Daimyo
Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out ...
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Wandering Himeshiro
Himeshiro is a wandering yakuza, his father was the best doctor in the eight provinces of the Kanto ...
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Photograph of Memories
A frustrated young woman returns from Tokyo to her hometown in Toyama where she meets an old woman w...
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Over Your Dead Body
An actor named Kosuke plays the role of Iemon in a stage version of Yotsuya Kaiden and his new lover...
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Cab
A suspenseful story about an earnest and kind-hearted taxi driver who, by chance, turns into a viole...
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous mo...
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Master Swordsman Hirate Miki - Duel in Tone
Zoushu Hirate was the acting master of Chibashusaku Dojo in the Hokushinitto style. His wife was dea...
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Legend of the Shadowy Ninja: The Ninja Dragon
The secretive realm of the world's deadliest ninja warriors is thrown into chaos as one by one, ninj...
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Hakuro no Shibijin
The wife of a famous resident of Kamakura awakens to carnal passion . . . And when her blood cools d...
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Undercover Geisha
Osome is a geisha and spy in the Tokugawa period. When she was very young she lost her family to a t...
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Legal High 2 SP
Attorneys Kensuke Komikado and Machiko Mayuzumi receive a request from a general hospital. They go ...
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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
A police detective Shoukokuji Ryuuya from the first section of Metropolitan Police Department is tas...
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Matinee
Satoshi Makino is a genius classical guitarist. One day, he meets journalist Yoko Komine. They becom...
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The Shootout
A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the l...
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Vietnam no dâchan
A Japanese journalist reunites with a girl who lost her family in the Vietnam War...
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The Summit of Mt. Fuji
The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoo...
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Kazu no Fūkei
Suspense TV movie based on the novel by Seicho Matsumoto, starring Ikko Furuya....
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