# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hideyuki-hirayama
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:16:32.962Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hideyuki-hirayama"
name: "Hideyuki Hirayama"
slug: "hideyuki-hirayama"
description: "Hideyuki Hirayama  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."
tagline: "Film director"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-09-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.21
  momentum:             5.186915887850466
  historical:           8.770737333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386312/"
    handle:    "nm0386312"
sources:
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    title: "平山秀幸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هايوكي هيراياما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هايوكى هيراياما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyuki_Hirayama"
    title: "Hideyuki Hirayama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyuki_Hirayama"
    title: "Hideyuki Hirayama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AF%D9%87%E2%80%8C%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%A9%DB%8C_%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "هیده‌یوکی هیرایاما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyuki_Hirayama"
    title: "Hideyuki Hirayama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyuki_Hirayama"
    title: "Hideyuki Hirayama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyuki_Hirayama"
    title: "Hideyuki Hirayama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1749267"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3036789"
    title: "Hirayama Hideyuki"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump