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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.

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