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      • Takumi Furukawa (古川 卓己, Furukawa Takumi, 27 March 1917 – 4 October 2018), aka Tai Kao-Mei (Chinese: 戴高美), was a Japanese film director.


      Career


      Born in Tokyo as Iwasaki Takumi, Furukawa graduated from the College of Art at Nihon University in 1941 and entered the Nikkatsu studio first in the screenwriting division before becoming an assistant director. After serving in the war, he returned to work at Daiei Film before returning to Nikkatsu when it resumed producing films in 1954. While working as an assistant director, he assisted such directors as Tomotaka Tasaka, Kajiro Yamamoto, Akira Kurosawa, and Heinosuke Gosho.
      He made his directorial debut in 1955 with Jigoku no Yōjinbō, which starred Rentarō Mikuni and for which he wrote the script. 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. His Cruel Gun Story (1964) was released on DVD with English subtitles by Eclipse from the Criterion Collection. Furukawa directed two films in Hong Kong and dramas for television.
      Furukawa died of heart failure on 4 October 2018 in a Tokyo hospital at the age of 101.


      Filmography




      = Films

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      This is a partial list of films.

      1955 Jigoku no Yōjinbō
      1956 Season of the Sun
      1964 Cruel Gun Story
      1967 Black Falcon - Screenwriter, Director. Mandarin language Hong Kong film.
      1967 Kiss and Kill - Director. Mandarin language Hong Kong film.


      References




      External links


      Takumi Furukawa at IMDb
      Furukawa Takumi at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
      Furukawa Takumi at hkmdb.com

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