Hideyuki Hirayama

Hideyuki Hirayama ???? is a Japanese film director His theatrical debut was the film Marias 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