Shinji Aoyama
Furusawa began making 8mm films in college, and won the scriptwriting award for his film "home sweet movie" at the 1997 Pia Film Festival. He enrolled at the Film School of Tokyo in 1997. After graduating, he worked as a director's assistant for Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shinji Aoyama, and Takahisa Zeze, and penned the scripts for Zeze's "Chōgokudō" and Kurosawa's "Doppelganger". He made his major feature length directorial debut with "Ghost Train" in 2006.