Katsutoshi Furuya is a Japanese film director, born in Komaki City and currently residing in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture. He began his career in filmmaking in his twenties while active in Nagoya’s independent theater scene. In 2005, he directed the medium-length film “Rainbow Dynamite”. A tokusatsu (special effects) hero film, it has found renewed appreciation following the production of “MieMie ~She can see~” and has been nominated for awards at regional film festivals in Japan. He later worked in the television industry and moved to Inuyama, where he embraces a lifestyle of “half-farming, half-video production”. He has been a director for a music program for 14 years. In 2024, at the age of 50, he took on the challenge of creating his first feature-length film for theatrical release, “MieMie ~She can see~”.