Kanji Furutachi
Popularity:0.244
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1968-03-23
Place of Birth:Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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Also Known As:ふるたちかんじ, 후루타치 칸지, Kanji Furutachi

My Sweet Grappa Remedies (2020)
Yasuko Matsuyuki heads the cast of this drama about a 40-something woman who is happy with her single life but nevertheless starts dating a man who...

One Summer Story (2021)
Between competitive swim team practice and cramming for classes the anime Buffalo Kotek is Minami’s only respit from her hectic life. So it...

The Sowing Traveller 3 (2016)
Acclaimed director of Summer of Chirusoku, Half a Confession and Yunagi City, Sakura Country Kiyoshi Sasabe casts Rin Takanashi and Takumi Saitoh as...

Hospitalité (2011)
In this black comedy the lives of a timid small-time printer and his young wife are turned inside out by the arrival of a stranger who moves in and...

Dead Waves (2005)
When a television producer visits the home of a brother and sister to interview them for his series on paranormal phenomena, what first appears to be...

Dreams for Sale (2012)
After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off...

GFP BUNNY (2012)
A troubled teenager only lives through her camera and the Internet. Fascinated by science, she experiments on various animals, and her own mother,...

The Pretenders (2021)
It depicts two high school girls trying to change the atmosphere of the world with their ideas by setting up a camera in the town and transmitting...

Raised in Water (2023)
On a sinking island in Manila Bay, an aging Japanese man searches for the daughter he abandoned as a child.

The Full-Time Wife Escapist: New Year's Special (2021)
Mikuri and Hiramasa both work and share housework duties. They have peaceful days together. One day, Mikuri learns that she is pregnant. They decide...

Anime Supremacy! (2022)
Hitomi Saito has been climbing the ranks for years and is set to direct an anime series for the first time, while brilliant director Chiharu Oji is...

The War of Announcers (2023)
Dramatization of The Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) and its announcers activities to support the Japanese military's fight during the war....

My Back Page (2011)
In 1969, Sawada is filled with idealism that permeated that era and starts working as a gonzo journalist for a weekly magazine. Two years later,...

Momo and the Seven Papagenos (2022)
Twenty-five-year-old Momo has friends. Her parents live some distance away, but they sometimes get together to dine out. She dates an acceptable guy,...

just another summer day (2022)
It was "just" a summer day spent with someone she didn't know, who was drunk and had lost her memory.

Too Young To Die! (2016)
After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.

Saru (2003)
Five young men participate in an experiment drug test, which is known as a short-term, high-paying part-time job.

Grandson of a Monster (2023)
The late Shinzo Abe was the longest-serving prime minister of all time, holding office for 2,822 consecutive days. While his hawkish foreign policy...

Passion (2013)
A singular deadpan comedy, The Passion tells a story of a young woman raised in a convent named Frances-ko (Mayuko Iwasa), after Saint Francesco....

Be My Slave (2012)
Dan Mitsu stars as Kana, a female employee at a publishing company who strikes up a sexual relationship with a younger co-worker. He soon discovers...

Theatre 2 (2012)
Oriza Hirata is Japan's leading playwright and director, who runs his own theatrical company, Seinendan. Theatre 2 (Observational Film Series #4)...

Ushijima the Loan Shark (2012)
Mirai Suzuki (Yuko Oshima) becomes responsible for her mother's debt which is owed to loan shark Kaoru Ushijima (Takayuki Yamada). To begin paying...

Maestro! (2015)
Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who...

Odayaka (2012)
Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both live in a state of unease. Saeko, who...

Flower of Shanidar (2013)
A strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that flower is called the "Shanidar". When the Shanidar is...

The Chef of South Polar (2009)
When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence.

The Woodsman and the Rain (2012)
A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.

Ryoichi & Kiyoshi (2006)
High school student, Ryoichi, hasn't gone to school since he injured a classmate. He kills time playing videogames alone everyday. One day, Uncle...

Heaven's Story (2010)
A young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press conference that he hopes convicted murderer Mitsuo is...

Drawing Days (2015)
A strange life together of a man and a woman united by paintings. A film starring Yuya Ozeki, shot in honor of his 20th birthday!

Have a Nice Day (2006)
Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"),...

I Got Hooked on My Pet and Quit the Company (2022)
Satomi leaves her job after a bad break up and on the way home she she falls in love with a Shiba Inu puppy, Ku-chan. She stay at home for a bit but...

The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio (2009)
Set in the early 1990's, after The Persian Gulf War began, a 30 year old man passes himself off as Captain Kuhio a pilot for an American Special...

I Was a Female Student During the War (2022)
A modern-day actress reincarnates during the Pacific War, but with a smartphone in her hand. A series that conveys everyday life during the war...

The 8-Year Engagement (2017)
Hisashi and Mai are a happy couple in their 20s who are engaged to be married. But three months before their wedding, Mai becomes seriously ill. Her...

Joker Game (2012)
All seniors at a high school stay together at a camp, including student Chinatsu. On their first day, the home room teacher announces that all the...

Au revoir l'été (2013)
After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to...

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation (2016)
Izumi Hoshi is senior in high school, but she led a small yakuza group in her past. After killing her uncle's murderer with a machine gun, her yakuza...

Harmonium (2016)
Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's...

The Escape (2025)
Follows the final days of left-wing terrorist Satoshi Kirishima, who died in 2024 after evading capture for 49 years.

Lowlife Love (2016)
Tetsuo is a lowlife. A film director with a small indie hit many years back, yet he has never gotten any further as he refuses to go against his...

Fly On (2023)
Watako has just lost her lover, Kimura, in a traffic accident in Tokyo. She decides to bury the trauma of this tragedy and carries on with her life...

Balloon Relay (2012)
A middle school student named Kozue finds a red balloon with an SD card attached to it. On the SD card is an invitation to the wedding of two...

Marriage (2017)
Urumi Kenji is a scoundrel who tricks women with his handsome looks and charm into a marriage yarn and swindles them out of their money. He is not a...

My Friend "A" (2018)
Masuda, an aspiring journalist, plans to write an article in order to expose his co-worker Suzuki, who is a psychopathic murderer according to Masuda.

The Chaplain (2018)
Saeki works with death-row convicts as a prison chaplain. He tries to instill the prisoners with a sense of morality and help them become a better...

Virgin Wandering (2009)
Jun Kanai is a lecturer at the University of Tokyo who despite being in his thirties is still a virgin. One day he reunites with an old student of...

Before a Falling Star Fades Away (2015)
A 21-year-old university student lost her boyfriend in a sudden accident and she can't get over him, but she begins to change thanks to her family...

Tremble All You Want (2017)
Yoshika has had a crush on Ichimiya, whom she calls "the One" since she was in middle school. Now, a 24-year-old salarywoman, her all-consuming...

After the Storm (2016)
Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife...

Blindly in Love (2013)
Kentaro is an unsocial 35-year-old who lives with his parents and has never dated a woman. When Kentaro’s parents set up an arranged marriage...

Terminal place (2018)
There were man and women who were supposed to think each other from a place far away. On a winter day, they got on the train to meet. On the journey,...

Human Comedy in Tokyo (2023)
'Human Comedy in Tokyo', describes ordinary everyday lives without any significant incidents. Various dialogues are elaborately woven to bring tiny...

From Miyamoto to You (2019)
Following the comic series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the same cast, a young and relatively inexperienced...

Theatre 1 (2012)
Theatre 1 (Observational Film Series #3) is a feature length documentary, which closely depicts the world of Oriza Hirata, Japan's leading playwright...

The Deadline (1970)
Led by the country's first ever female, non-Caucasian president, the United States of America launches a Green Card video contest to attract new...

It Stopped Raining (2020)
A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is hospitalized,...

Tamaran Hill (2020)
Hinako comes across the novel “Tamaran Hill” and immediately starts reading it with delight, as “tamaran” (intolerable)...

Temple (2017)
Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into the jungles of Japan searching for an ancient temple. When spirits entrap them, their...

The Voice of Sin (2020)
Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago. The case involved a group of people extorting...

My Name is Yours (2020)
At midnight, in a residential area of Osaka, a middle aged man is murdered. The person who killed the man is a high school student. En is a 2nd...

The World of Kanako (2014)
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his...

The Sun (2016)
The story is set in the early 21st century with the population decimated by bio terror. Two kinds of humans now exist. One is the Nokusu who were...

Annette (2021)
The story of Henry, a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humour and Ann, a singer of international renown. In the spotlight, they are the...

Pieta in the Toilet (2015)
Hiroshi has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to...

Ravens (2024)
Enigmatic, rejected, heartbroken. Masahisa Fukase must rebuild his life, overcome tradition, his inner demons and the pain of a broken marriage. The...

Ravens (2024)
Enigmatic, rejected, heartbroken. Masahisa Fukase must rebuild his life, overcome tradition, his inner demons and the pain of a broken marriage. The...

From Miyamoto To You (2018)
The story follows an amateur salaryman named Hiroshi Miyamoto, who works at a stationary company and pushes forward despite his frustration with his...

Haruka no Hikari (2021)
Haruka is a fisherman's daughter, who lost her home and many friends in the Tohoku earthquake. After a year living in a temporary housing, she did...

How to be Likable in a Crisis (2021)
Makoto Kanzaki is a PR man at a university. He is swept up in a series of scandals and is driven into a corner as he tries to make temporary...

The Hovering Blade (2021)
Following the brutal rape and murder of his teenage daughter, a single father seeks revenge against the responsible youths. His pursuit for justice...

Taberudake (2013)
Based on the manga by Sanko Takada

Time Limit Investigator (2006)
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are...

Like a Girl Playing House (2016)
Onchi Eiko, the proprietress of a bar, is trapped in a sad, hidden past. One day, an old friend Shigeko shows up with her 5-year-old son Daiji in...

I Didn't Love You Because I Was a Family, But I Loved You as a Family (2023)
Follow the daily lives of the Kishimoto family.

We Married as a Job: New Year's Special (2020)

The Full-Time Wife Escapist (2016)
A series of events leads single, 25-year-old Mikuri Moriyama and 36-year-old Hiramasa Tsuzaki to marry as a cover.

Hoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama (2022)
Hoshi Shinichi is the "God of Short Stories" who published more than 1001 short stories during his lifetime, some of which are included in textbooks...

I Lived in Kyoto for a While (2022)
After a new job and a month-long business trip to Osaka, Kana is back in Kyoto for a short stay! "What is the feeling of 'loneliness' when living in...

Everyone's Getting Married (2017)
Asuka Takanashi is a twenty-something woman who works for a megabank and holds various professional qualifications in finance. Despite her successful...

Legal High (2012)
A lawyer with a big personality works with an straightlaced recent law graduate on various law cases in Japan.

Hoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama (2022)
Hoshi Shinichi is the "God of Short Stories" who published more than 1001 short stories during his lifetime, some of which are included in textbooks...

Seven Orifices (2024)
Seven huge holes appear in Japan — could they really be gods? Eight people and their teacher share their stories and secrets before entering...

Ashi Girl (2017)
Hayakawa Yui is a young girl whose biggest quality is to be a fast runner. She accidentally travels through time up to the Sengoku Era and falls in...

Humanoid Monster Bem (2011)
Bem, Bela, and Belo are not "monsters," nor "humans," but "humanoid monsters." They usually disguise themselves as a human family living together,...

Tamagawa Ward Office of the Dead (2014)
Set in a place where zombie's existence are commonplace. Shinsuke Akaba (Kento Hayashi) works in the special welfare division at the Tamagawa City...

Hello, Detective Hedgehog (2017)
Detective Goro Nanase and his colleagues of "Akatsuka Detective Office" are based in Shimo-Akazuka of Itabashi-ku, Tokyo. The detectives take on a...

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House (2023)
Two inseparable friends move to Kyoto to chase their dreams of becoming maiko, but decide to pursue different passions while living under the same...

Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story (2019)
Traces Japan’s history with the Olympic games and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics for viewers before Tokyo hosts the event again in 2020. The first...

Rent a Person Who Does Nothing (2020)
The main character provides a highly unusual service by offering his companionship in exchange for the humble fee of covered transportation costs and...

Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku (2020)
A slice of life comedy where Furutachi Kanji and Takito Kenichi play poor brothers Ichiro and Jiro respectively. Older one (Ichiro) is very serious...

Beyond Goodbye (2024)
After losing her fiancé in an accident, Saeko feels an inexplicable connection to a stranger — who, by a twist of fate, received his...