Hideyuki Hirayama
Born: 1950-09-18 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Known For: Directing
Biography
Hideyuki Hirayama (平山秀幸) is a Japanese film director. His theatrical debut was the film Maria's Stomach in 1990. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for The Games Teachers Play in 1992. In 1995, School Ghost Stories was a big hit and made into popular series. Begging for Love in 1998 got many awards as International press award (FIPRESCI) in Montreal World Film Festival, Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year, Mainichi Film Award for Best Director etc. In 2001, Hirayama won Best Director Choice for Turn at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. He also got several Japanese film awards for director, including the Best Director award for The Laughing Frog and Out at the 2003 Yokohama Film Festival.
Filmography
2025
- 1972 Fireflies on the Shore ... (Director)
2023
- Warera ga Paradise ... (Series Director)
2022
- Tsuyukusa ... (Director)
2019
- Family of Strangers ... (Director)
2017
- Hitoya no Toge ... (Series Director)
2012
- Hitori Shizuka ... (Director)
2011
- Oba: The Last Samurai ... (Director)
2010
- Sword of Desperation ... (Director)
- Forget Me Not ... (Director)
2007
- Talk, Talk, Talk ... (Director)
- Three for the Road ... (Director)
2006
- The Woman Opposite ... (Director)
2004
- Lady Joker ... (Director)
2003
- Samurai Resurrection ... (Director)
2002
- Out ... (Director)
- The Laughing Frog ... (Director)
2001
- Turn ... (Director)
1999
- Haunted School 4 ... (Director)
1998
- Begging for Love ... (Director)
1996
- Haunted School 2 ... (Director)
1995
- Haunted School ... (Director)
1994
- Yoi Ko to Asobou ... (Director)
1993
- Human Scramble: Rain ... (Director)
1992
- The Games Teachers Play ... (Director)
1990
- Maria's Stomach ... (Director)
- Playmate Murder Case Let Me Go to Heaven ... (Director)
1988
- Door ... (Assistant Director)
- Kaito Ruby ... (Assistant Director)
1987
- Robinson's Garden ... (Assistant Director)
1986
- Beyond the Shining Sea ... (Assistant Director)
1985
- Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki ... (Assistant Director)
1984
- The Funeral ... (Assistant Director)