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Hideyuki Hirayama
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 Ga…
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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.
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2025
1972 Fireflies on the Shore
TV show Director
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2023
Warera ga Paradise
TV show Series Director
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2022
Tsuyukusa
Movie Director
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2019
Family of Strangers
Movie Director
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2017
Hitoya no Toge
TV show Series Director
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2012
Hitori Shizuka
TV show Director
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2011
Oba: The Last Samurai
Movie Director
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2010
Forget Me Not
Movie Director
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2010
Sword of Desperation
Movie Director
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2007
Three for the Road
Movie Director
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2007
Talk, Talk, Talk
Movie Director
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2006
The Woman Opposite
Movie Director
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2004
Lady Joker
Movie Director
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2003
Samurai Resurrection
Movie Director
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2002
Out
Movie Director
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2002
The Laughing Frog
Movie Director
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2001
Turn
Movie Director
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1999
Haunted School 4
Movie Director
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1998
Begging for Love
Movie Director
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1996
Haunted School 2
Movie Director
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1995
Haunted School
Movie Director
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1994
Yoi Ko to Asobou
Movie Director
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1993
Human Scramble: Rain
Movie Director
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1992
The Games Teachers Play
Movie Director
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1990
Playmate Murder Case Let Me Go to Heaven
Movie Director
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1990
Maria's Stomach
Movie Director
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1988
Kaito Ruby
Movie Assistant Director
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1988
Door
Movie Assistant Director
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1987
Robinson's Garden
Movie Assistant Director
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1986
Beyond the Shining Sea
Movie Assistant Director
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1985
Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki
Movie Assistant Director
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1984
The Funeral
Movie Assistant Director
