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 33
2020s
- 2025
1972 Fireflies on the Shore
Director
- 2023
Warera ga Paradise
Series Director
- 2022
Tsuyukusa
Director
2010s
- 2019
- 2017
Hitoya no Toge
Series Director
- 2016
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
Forget Me Not
Director
Sword of Desperation
Director
2000s
- 2007
Three for the Road
Director
Talk, Talk, Talk
Director
- 2006
The Woman Opposite
Director
- 2004
Lady Joker
Director
- 2003
Samurai Resurrection
Director
- 2002
The Laughing Frog
Director
- 2001
Turn
Director
1990s
- 1999
Haunted School 4
Director
- 1998
Begging for Love
Director
- 1996
Haunted School 2
Director
- 1995
Haunted School
Director
- 1994
Yoi Ko to Asobou
Director
- 1993
Human Scramble: Rain
Director
- 1992
The Games Teachers Play
Director
- 1990
Playmate Murder Case Let Me Go to Heaven
Director
Maria's Stomach
Director
1980s
- 1988
Kaito Ruby
Assistant Director
- 1987
- 1986
Beyond the Shining Sea
Assistant Director
- 1985
Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki
Assistant Director
- 1984
The Funeral
Assistant Director
Wrote 1
2010s
- 2019