Takeshi Furusawa

Takeshi Furusawa is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Takeshi Furusawa is a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his contributions to the horror and thriller genres. Furusawa's films are recognized for their suspenseful narratives and unique storytelling techniques.

Works

Feel So Tawawa

Aya, an erotic writer, lives with her boyfriend, Hajime, a company employee. Recently, they have been a little bit growing apart, and she feels somewhat unfulfilled. One day, Aya learns that the magazine to which she contributes will suddenly cease publication. That night, she is invited out for a drink by Tanaka, an editor whom she respects, and drinks deeply, losing consciousness. When she wakes up, she finds Tanaka in another room making intense love to a mysterious woman, Maria.

Release Date2019-07-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Hajime Ôtsuka

Vote Count2

Killer Tenant

This is a sensual horror comedy directed by Furusawa Ken. Murata is a man who lives a makeshift, self-indulgent life. He manages to make ends meet by getting Chihiro, who has come to stay with him, to take on customers, but he has fallen behind on his rent and his landlord, Taeko, is forcing him to move out. Then, a couple moves into the apartment, forcing Murata into an unexpected sexual situation....

Release Date2020-08-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Sono “Okodawari”, Watashi ni mo Kure yo!!

Sono “Okodawari”, Watashi ni mo Kure yo!!

As emcees of a fictitious variety programme, Matsuoka Mayu and Ito Sairi interview people with fixations in everyday life to find out what is difficult for others to understand, but makes the person happy.

Release Date2016-04-09

Charactersd 古泽健

Episode Count11

Making of Love

Written, edited, performed, and directed by Takeshi Furusawa.

Release Date2010-07-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Pulse

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

Release Date2001-02-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count625

Blue Summer

Rio is a high school student in Tokyo. Her mother tells her she will spend the summer in the countryside. There, she meets Ginzo. He is a high school student and handsome. They fall in love.

Release Date2018-08-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

ReLIFE

Arata Kaizaki, a jobless adult, undergoes an experiment that makes him 10 years younger. He goes back to high school and falls in love with Chizuru Hishiro, who is more than she seems.

Release Date2017-04-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count72

Avec Punch

High school students Isaki and Hiramasa can't stand being bored. One day, while walking across town, they bump shoulders with two other people. An argument ensues and, as usual, Hiramasa is ready to fight. Hiramasa is supremely confident when it comes to fighting. An unusual thing happens though, Hiramasa gets knocked out ...

Release Date2011-06-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Ghost Train

On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female spirit who 'lives' on the station platform. One day, Nana's younger sister is lost, and the only possibility seems to be that she had been taken by these spirits. The missing tracks. The predictions that a mysterious woman makes.

Release Date2006-09-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count25

Run! T High School Basketball Club

Yoichi plays basketball at his junior high and is capable. He is granted a scholarship and attends a high school with a superlative basket team. Instead of welcoming the boy the students there decide to bully and harass the new player leading Yoichi to a new high school and basketball team. Expectedly, the basketball team is not the best. The team will have to soon play against the team from the school Yoichi was in before.

Release Date2018-11-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

RoomMate

Harumi Hagiwara lands in the hospital after being involved in an accident. She hits it off with her nurse, Reiko Nishimura, and the two decide to move in together after she's discharged. However, Harumi begins to witness a series of mysterious events soon after noticing Reiko's strange behavior. Additionally, she fears for her own safety when Reiko starts referring to herself as 'Mari' as if she's become an entirely different person. Before long, the situation develops into a case of murder.

Release Date2013-11-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count20

Barren Illusion

In a near future where allergies have become an epidemic, music producer Haru half-heartedly dates post office clerk and mail thief Michi. He searches for violent ways to reactivate his life, she dreams of escaping abroad; both volunteer to test a new drug which may provide a cure.

Release Date1999-12-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count14

Love for Beginners

Hibino Tsubaki is a young teenage girl with a talent for styling other people's hair. Yet, Tsubaki suffers from low self-esteem and isn't very comfortable styling her own hair. She also has a tendency to dress old-fashioned. She's teased at high school because of this. One day, popular male student Tsubaki Kyota targets Tsubaki for teasing. Tsubaki Kyota holds sway over the entire classroom and is quite a playboy. Inexplicably they fall in love. Meanwhile, Tsubaki Kyota has commitment issues...

Release Date2012-12-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count43

Clover

Saya Suzuki is an ordinary employee working at a hotel. She falls in love with her elite boss Susumu Tsuge. Through their romance, Saya Suzuki grows as a person.

Release Date2014-11-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count44

Make a Bow and Kiss

Mikami Yota is smitten with the archery of his older schoolmate Kishimoto, a high school senior who heads the archery club. Mikami clumsily conveys his ardent feelings to An, and she tries to respond to his affections. Their feelings are mutual but somehow things don't go smoothly between them, and then other guys appear on the scene to complicate things.

Release Date2017-11-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

Love and Lies

The Japanese government carries out a program to increase the birth rate in the country. Their program analyzes gene information from its residents and selects a marriage partner for them. Aoi Nisaka is a high school student. She is in a love triangle with childhood friend Yuto Shiba and Sosuke Takachiho. Sosuke Takachiho is appointed by the government to become her husband.

Release Date2017-10-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

37.5°C Tears

Sugisaki Momoko used to be a nursery school teacher. Her difficulty smiling leads to communication problems with parents and her contract is terminated in one year. Momoko is picked up by ‘Little Snow’, a home care service for sick children, and makes a fresh start there as a caregiver. When a child has a fever, the caregiver would visit the home and care for the child in place of the parents who simply cannot take time off from work. Momoko encounters all sorts of families at the places she is sent to. With the support of her colleagues and the occasional help of her best friend, Yumika, she starts to face work, romance, family and friendship.

Release Date2015-07-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count2

Battle of Demons 2

20 years before the events of the original story, another girl discovers that she’s been kidnapped by a demon that plans to be her groom.

Release Date2009-11-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

This Mystery is Excellent! ~ Challenge from Bestseller Writer

Kashiopea no Endo Roru A murder takes place on a luxury overnight train which runs from Sapporo to Ueno, Tokyo. The victim is a film director. The suspects are 4 women. Nokosareta Senritsu After a pianist concludes her best performance to date, she dies mysteriously in the waiting room. The cause of her death is potassium cyanide that was laced in her coffee. Kuroi Pan Teru A man works as a supervisor for a construction company. 30 years ago, he was a popular actor who played a hero character on TV. Now, he has a wife and a 20-year-old daughter. One day, the man learns that his daughter is kidnapped. Daiyamondo Dasuto A cold wave hits Tokyo. Two men, working for the same company, are unable to avoid overtime work that night. The snow storm then causes electrical outages. The two men must face difficult life or death decisions.

Release Date2014-12-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Twilight Syndrome: Dead Cruise

In this J-horror flick based on a popular videogame series, honor students on a senior cruise get trapped in an alternate reality game brought on board by their vindictive classmate.

Release Date2008-08-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Chogokudo

Togashi, the leader of Togashi-gumi, boasts enormous power. The leader of the Ryuokai is sent to prison because he distrusts him who controls the town, and a mysterious man who calls himself Takishima appears in front of Shinshiro who becomes the leader of the group.

Release Date2001-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Kokkuri-san: Nihon-ban

Many years ago when Cammy (Aiko Ito) was in primary school, she played Kokkurisan with 3 kids. Suddenly, a kid vanished strangely. Now Cammy is grown up and becomes a sales representative of a property company. One day, she goes to investigate about the strange cases happened in a haunted house. Coincidentally, she finds that big house was the home of her old friend who vanished in the past. in the meantime, the psychologist Yuki (Nao Nagasawa) finds that one of her patient was forced to suicide by a kind of strange strength. Before that patient died, she drew a picture of a little girl who wore red clothes and kept on screaming scarily of "Holy Angel". Beside this, the other friends of Cammy who joined to play the game of Kokkurisan in the past, also encounter strange incidents. Unreasonable disappearance cases happen in many places of the city. To reveal the truth, Cammy and Yuki decide to go back to the old place and call for Kokkurisan again!

Release Date2005-08-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Another

After a chain of deaths at a junior high school, new transfer student Koichi Sakakibara turns to a mysterious girl who holds the key to the dark mystery.

Release Date2012-08-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count53

The Call of Zon

The small town of Yumetoi has been sealed off from the outside world for 20 years by a mysterious phenomenon called “Zon”. But more and more people, like Ippo and his girlfriend Remi, begin to wonder: What lies beyond “Zon”? Takuji SUZUKI’s experimental science fiction film will capture you with its surreal atmosphere, which is intensified by a unique combination of digital and analog images.

Release Date2018-01-01

DepartmentCrew

JobScript

A Bad Boy Drinks Tea!

A Bad Boy Drinks Tea!

Masaya Funabashi is the villain who ruled middle school as the "devil". Upon entering high school, he unexpectedly joins the tea ceremony club alongside his partner Yamada - he wants to wash his hands of the rough life of a delinquent and enjoy a peaceful mind and school life. But his delinquent spirit doesn't fade away so easily…

Release Date2021-03-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Fukuyadou Honpo: Kyoto Love Story

Fukuyadou Honpo is a traditional Kyoto sweet shop with 450 years of history. This romantic drama depicts the careers, love lives and dreams of three sisters.

Release Date2016-10-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Vote Count4

Tawawana tokimeki: Your Life May Change

Film director Karen is invited by his childhood friend Sudo, a famous film director, to film a movie in Mexico. Karen is surprised and delighted by the suddenness, but feels something is wrong and blurs her words. Her best friend Aya, who was taught by her girlfriend to live freely, was dissatisfied with her inarticulate appearance. Sequel to Feel so Tawawa/Tawawana kimochi: Zenbu yatchaou.

Release Date2021-02-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Izure Anata ga Shiru Hanashi

Yasuko, a single mother raising her daughter Aya in a run-down apartment, struggles to make ends meet with her job at a bento shop. In order to provide for Aya, she turns to the sex industry. One day, upon returning home, Yasuko discovers that Aya has been kidnapped. However, Yasuko chooses not to try to retrieve her daughter. Why wouldn't Yasuko, for whom Aya is everything, attempt to bring her back? From that day on, Yasuko's secret routine begins. Unbeknownst to anyone, one man watches her every move intently.

Release Date2024-05-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Tokyo Woman

Tokyo Woman

Two women of different ages with different backgrounds and lifestyles meet in the city of Tokyo following an event and the two form a friendship. Miyata Makiko is a caregiver who works in Toyama. Through the influences of those around her, she decides to get married and get a job, though in reality she doesn’t know what she really desires in life. However, after suddenly receiving a “Boston bag” containing 30 million yen from a robber, she decides to board a bus bound for Tokyo…

Release Date2023-11-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Last Movie Part 2

Movie made to be screened at Yokohama Cinemarine.

Release Date2025-09-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Ikibotoke 2020

Short film made at Yokohama Cinemarine.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Yokohama Cinemazon

Short film

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector