Kirio Urayama Explained

Kirio Urayama
Birth Date:	14 December 1930
Birth Place:	Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Occupation:	Film director, screenwriter
Yearsactive:	1956-1985

^[1] was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Career

Born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Urayama graduated from Nagoya University before joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1954. After working as an assistant director to Yūzō Kawashima and Shohei Imamura, he debuted as a director with Foundry Town in 1962, a film that depicted the life of Zainichi Korean residents of Japan. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for that film.^[2] His 1963 film Bad Girl (Each day I cry)^[3] was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Golden Prize.^[4]

He directed a total of nine films before his death in 1985.

Selected filmography

• Victory Is Mine (1956, writer)
• Foundry Town (1962, director and writer)
• Bad Girl (1963)
• The Gate of Youth (1975, director and writer)
• Taro the Dragon Boy (1979, director and screenplay)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Urayama Kirio. Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus. Kōdansha. 16 May 2011.
2. Web site: Nihon Eiga Kantoku Kyōkai Shinjinshō . Directors Guild of Japan . Japanese . 11 December 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101122022302/http://dgj.or.jp/award_g/ . 22 November 2010 .
3. Web site: Archived copy . 19 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140225052812/http://www.eddistribution.com/en/film.php?id_film=78 . 25 February 2014 . dead .
4. Web site: 3rd Moscow International Film Festival (1963) . 25 November 2012 . MIFF . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130116210707/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1963 . 16 January 2013 .