Hideyuki Hirayama

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Sword of Desperation (2010) — Director
2. Oba: The Last Samurai (2011) — Director
3. Haunted School (1995) — Director
4. Samurai Resurrection (2003) — Director
5. Turn (2001) — Director
6. Family of Strangers (2019) — Director
7. Haunted School 4 (1999) — Director
8. Out (2002) — Director
9. Talk, Talk, Talk (2007) — Director
10. Haunted School 2 (1996) — Director
11. Begging for Love (1998) — Director
12. The Laughing Frog (2002) — Director
13. Hitori Shizuka (2012) — Director
14. Lady Joker (2004) — Director
15. Three for the Road (2007) — Director
16. 1972 Fireflies on the Shore (2025) — Director
17. Tsuyukusa (2022) — Director
18. Yoi Ko to Asobou (1994) — Director
19. Maria's Stomach (1990) — Director
20. The Games Teachers Play (1992) — Director
21. The Woman Opposite (2006) — Director
22. Playmate Murder Case Let Me Go to Heaven (1990) — Director
23. Human Scramble: Rain (1993) — Director
24. Forget Me Not (2010) — Director