Hideyuki Hirayama
Directing · Born Sep 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.
Known for
Directed
1972 Fireflies on the Shore
20258.3
Tsuyukusa
20225.5
Family of Strangers
20197.6
Hitori Shizuka
20127.6
Oba: The Last Samurai
20116.3
Forget Me Not
2010
Sword of Desperation
20106.9
Three for the Road
20073.0
Talk, Talk, Talk
20075.9
The Woman Opposite
2006
Lady Joker
20047.3
Samurai Resurrection
20034.9
Out
20025.6
The Laughing Frog
20026.0
Turn
20016.8
Haunted School 4
19996.0
Begging for Love
19987.0
Haunted School 2
19967.3
Haunted School
19956.3
Yoi Ko to Asobou
19949.0
Human Scramble: Rain
1993
The Games Teachers Play
199210.0
Playmate Murder Case Let Me Go to Heaven
1990
Maria's Stomach
199010.0