Hideyuki Hirayama

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1950-09-18 (74 years old)

Place of Birth Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Hideyuki Hirayama

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.

Known For

Director

2022
Tsuyukusa

as Director

2019
2012
Hitori Shizuka

as Director

2011
2010
2010
Forget Me Not

as Director

2007
Talk, Talk, Talk

as Director

2007
Three for the Road

as Director

2006
The Woman Opposite

as Director

2004
Lady Joker

as Director

2003
2002
Out

as Director

2002
The Laughing Frog

as Director

2001
Turn

as Director

1999
Haunted School 4

as Director

1998
Begging for Love

as Director

1996
Haunted School 2

as Director

1995
Haunted School

as Director

1994
Yoi Ko to Asobou

as Director

1993
1992
1990
Maria's Stomach

as Director

1988
Door

as Assistant Director

1986
Beyond the Shining Sea

as Assistant Director

1985
1984
The Funeral

as Assistant Director

Writer

2019
Family of Strangers

as Screenplay