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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.

Lady Joker ( 2004) | IMDb: 6.3

Crime , Drama , Thriller

Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama inspired by the unsolved 1984 kidnapping of a Japanese candy company president.

Starring:

Satoshi Tokushige , Tetsuya Watari , Mitsuru Fukikoshi , Ren Osugi , Koji Kikkawa , Haruhiko Kato

Directed by:

Hideyuki Hirayama

Produced by:

Haunted School ( 1995) | IMDb: 6.2

Family , Horror

A young girl wanders into a wing of her elementary school that has been abandoned for years and is rumored to be haunted. When she doesn't come back, a group of her classmates go looking for her, only to find that they, too, are trapped inside. They must somehow find their way to safety, and quickly, because the rumors of ghosts are turning out to be true.

Starring:

Hironobu Nomura , Ayako Sugiyama , Masahiro Sato , Kimiko Yo , Kaoru Mizuki , Masumi Touyama

Directed by:

Hideyuki Hirayama

Produced by:

Hideyuki Takai

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Biography