Director
Hideyuki Hirayama
76 years · Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan · 22 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 22
Tsuyukusa
2022 · Director
Family of Strangers
2019 · Director, Screenplay
Oba: The Last Samurai
2011 · Director
Forget Me Not
2010 · Director
Sword of Desperation
2010 · Director
On Cineverse
Three for the Road
2007 · Director
Talk, Talk, Talk
2007 · Director
The Woman Opposite
2006 · Director
Lady Joker
2004 · Director
Samurai Resurrection
2003 · Director
On Plex
Out
2002 · Director
The Laughing Frog
2002 · Director
Turn
2001 · Director
Haunted School 4
1999 · Director
Begging for Love
1998 · Director
Haunted School 2
1996 · Director
Haunted School
1995 · Director
Yoi Ko to Asobou
1994 · Director
Human Scramble: Rain
1993 · Director
The Games Teachers Play
1992 · Director
Playmate Murder Case Let Me Go to Heaven
1990 · Director
Maria's Stomach
1990 · Director