Drama

Begging for Love

1986

Drama
Romance

Beyond the Shining Sea

Woman's karma—like the ocean, calm but suddenly wild and angry.

2019

Drama

Family of Strangers

2010

Drama

Horror

Haunted School 2

1999

Drama
Horror
Thriller

Haunted School 4

1993

Drama

Human Scramble: Rain

1990

Comedy
Horror

Maria's Stomach

2011

Drama
War

Oba: The Last Samurai

2002

Drama

Out

2003

Action
Fantasy
History
Science Fiction
Thriller

Samurai Resurrection

Vengeance from hell

2010

Action
Romance
Thriller

Sword of Desperation

2007

Comedy
Drama

Talk, Talk, Talk

1992

Drama

The Games Teachers Play

Comedy

Three for the Road

2022

Drama

Tsuyukusa

2001

Turn

Hideyuki Hirayama

Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan / 1950

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.