Kiyoshi Yamamoto

Biography

Yamamoto Kiyoshi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. After growing up in Malaysia, Yamamoto attended the Tokyo Metropolitan Ryogoku High School and then graduated from Meiji Gakuin University's Department of Psychology. After his directorial debut in 2003, he has been involved in the production of entertainment content like live-action films as well as games.

Directed

1. Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light (2017) — Director
2. Brave Father Online - Our Story of Final Fantasy XIV (2019) — Director
3. Death Water (2006) — Director
4. End Call (2008) — Director
5. Occult Detective Club: The Doll Cemetery (2004) — Director
6. Tomobiki (2010) — Director
7. Scary True Stories: Grudge 2 (2007) — Director
8. Scary True Stories: Night 2 (2005) — Director
9. Scary True Stories: Grudge (2004) — Director
10. Neo Document Series ZONE (2004) — Director
11. Mysterious! Unbelievable ～Fear Contagion～ (2004) — Director
12. 吸血獣人チュパゲラの逆襲 ZONE (2007) — Director
13. Mysterious! Unbelievable: Submission! Cursed Photographs 24 (2004) — Director
14. Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video: Dreadful Post - BEST20 (2004) — Director
15. Ōoku: Hyakka ryōran (2008) — Director
16. Mysterious! Unbelievable: The World You Don't Know (2004) — Director
17. Terebi Hōsō Dekinakatta Kindan Eizō 1 (2009) — Director
18. Terebi Hōsō Dekinakatta Kindan Eizō 2 (2009) — Director
19. Terebi Hōsō Dekinakatta Kindan Eizō 3 (2010) — Director
20. Terebi Hōsō Dekinakatta Kindan Eizō 4 (2010) — Director
21. Ghost Stories II: Workplace Ghost Stories (2006) — Director
22. Ghost Stories I: Hospital Ghost Stories (2006) — Director
23. Ghost Stories III: School Ghost Stories (2006) — Director
24. LOST ～呪われた島～ (2006) — Director
25. An Inconvenient Truth of Japan (2008) — Director
26. Real Heroes (2008) — Director
27. Psychic Detective Yakumo: Part 1 (2006) — Director
28. Psychic Detective Yakumo: Part 2 (2006) — Director
29. Psychic Detective Yakumo: Part 3 (2006) — Director
30. Stories of Apparitions (2006) — Director
31. Terebide wa Nagasenai Geinō-kai no Kowai Hanashi (2014) — Director
32. やりすぎコンパニオンとアタシ物語 (2011) — Director
33. Jiko Bukken Sunde Mita: Nibansenji de Sumimasen (2025) — Director
34. Nozokiya (2007) — Director
35. Shinsengumi PEACE MAKER (2010) — Director

Also appeared in

1. High and Low (1963) — Detective Ueno
2. Kwaidan (1965) — (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
3. Blood Type: Blue (1978)
4. Abduction (1997) — Shin Yamane
5. Carry On Yakuza (1989)