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.
Filmography
- Ai no onimotsu (1955, assistant director)
- Victory Is Mine (1956, co-writer)
- Nishi Ginza Station (1958, assistant director)
- Endless Desire (1958, assistant director)
- My Second Brother (1959, assistant director)
- Ojôsan no sampomichi (1960, co-writer)
- Yami ni hikaru me (1960, assistant director)
- Yami o saku kuchibue (1960, assistant director)
- Pigs and Battleships (1961, assistant director)
- Foundry Town, aka Kyūpora no aru machi (1962, director and co-writer)
- Bad Girl, aka Hiko shōjo (1963, director and co-writer)
- The Girl I Abandoned (1969, director)
- The Gate of Youth, aka Seishun no mon (1975, director and co-writer)
- The Gate of Youth Part 2, aka Seishun no mon: Jiritsu hen (1977, director and co-writer)
- Taro the Dragon Boy (1979, director and co-writer)
- Child of the Sun, aka Taiyo no ko teda no fua (1980, director and co-writer)
- Dark Room (1983, director)
- Yumechiyo's Diary (1985, director)
Notes and References
- Web site: Urayama Kirio. Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus. Kōdansha. 16 May 2011.
- 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 .
- 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 .
- 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 .
