Hideyuki Hirayama
Directing
Born September 18, 1950 · Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
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.
Directed (22)
Tsuyukusa
2022
Family of Strangers
2019
Oba: The Last Samurai
2011
Forget Me Not
2010
Sword of Desperation
2010
Three for the Road
2007
Talk, Talk, Talk
2007
The Woman Opposite
2006
Lady Joker
2004
Samurai Resurrection
2003
Out
2002
The Laughing Frog
2002
Turn
2001
Haunted School 4
1999
Begging for Love
1998
Haunted School 2
1996
Haunted School
1995
Yoi Ko to Asobou
1994
Human Scramble: Rain
1993
The Games Teachers Play
1992
Playmate Murder Case Let Me Go to Heaven
1990
Maria's Stomach
1990