Hideyuki Hirayama
Film director · Japan · On the map · Directors · Born 1950 · age 76
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.
Hideyuki Hirayama is read about 32 times a day, in 9 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 25 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
1972 Fireflies on the ShoreSeries, Director2022
TsuyukusaFilm, Director2019
Family of StrangersFilm, Director, Writer2012
Hitori ShizukaSeries, Director2010
Forget Me NotFilm, Director2007
Talk, Talk, TalkFilm, Director2006
The Woman OppositeFilm, Director2003
Samurai ResurrectionFilm, Director2002
OutFilm, Director2001
TurnFilm, Director1999
Haunted School 4Film, Director1998Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best DirectorAward1996
Haunted School 2Film, Director1995
Haunted SchoolFilm, Director1994
Yoi Ko to AsobouFilm, Director1993Directors Guild of Japan New Directors AwardAward1992
The Games Teachers PlayFilm, Director1990
Maria's StomachFilm, Director1950Born18 September 1950People around Hideyuki
Close ties
Jun Kunimura Hideyuki directed Begging for Love (1998)
Satoko Okudera Also in Human Scramble: Rain (1993)
Akira Emoto Hideyuki directed Samurai Resurrection (2003)
Mieko Harada Hideyuki directed Begging for Love and Out
Ittoku Kishibe Hideyuki directed Sword of Desperation (2010)
Naomi Nishida Hideyuki directed Begging for Love and Out
Mitsuko Baishō Hideyuki directed Out and Turn
Fumiyo Kohinata Hideyuki directed Begging for Love (1998)
Yutaka Matsushige Hideyuki directed Talk Talk Talk and Tsuyukusa
Kyōzō Nagatsuka Also in The Games Teachers Play (1992)- Yoshinori Fujita Produced Haunted School and Begging for Love
Kaoru Yachigusa Hideyuki directed Talk Talk Talk (2007)
Kimiko Yo Hideyuki directed Gakkō no Kaidan (1995)
Satomi Kobayashi Hideyuki directed Tsuyukusa (2022)
Kazuya Takahashi Also in Samurai Resurrection (2003)
Treat Williams Hideyuki directed Oba: The Last Samurai (2011)
Yōsuke Kubozuka Hideyuki directed Samurai Resurrection (2003)
Koyuki Hideyuki directed Forget Me Not (2010)
Masaya Katō Hideyuki directed Samurai Resurrection (2003)
Junichi Okada Hideyuki directed Everest: The Summit of the Gods (2016)
Kiichi Nakai Hideyuki directed Begging for Love (1998)
Machiko Ono Hideyuki directed Everest: The Summit of the Gods (2016)
Arata Furuta Hideyuki directed Samurai Resurrection (2003)
Kōji Kikkawa Also in Lady Joker and Sword of Desperation
Filmography 22
33 credits on file
Television 2
Awards
About this person
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.
