Kirio Urayama
Kirio Urayama | |
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| Born | 14 December 1930 Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan |
| Died | 20 October 1985 (aged 54) |
| Occupations | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1956-1985 |
Kirio Urayama (浦山 桐郎, Urayama Kirio; 14 December 1930 – 20 October 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.[1] After working as an assistant director to Akinori Matsuo, Yūzō Kawashima and Shohei Imamura, he debuted as a director with Foundry Town in 1962,[1] a film that depicted the life of Zainichi Korean residents of Japan. It helped establish Sayuri Yoshinaga as a major actress (she would collaborate with Urayama several times, including on his final film Yumechiyo's Diary). Urayama won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for Foundry Town.[2] His 1963 film Bad Girl (also known as 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 eleven films before his death in 1985 of acute heart failure.[1]
Filmography
Screenwriter
- Victory Is Mine (1956, co-writer)
- Ojôsan no sampomichi (1960, co-writer)
- Tōkyō no otenba musume (1961, co-writer)
- Ningen no sabaku (1990, posthumous)
Assistant director
- Burden of Love (1955, second assistant director)
- Ai no onimotsu (1955)
- Stolen Desire (1958)
- Nishi Ginza Station (1958)
- Endless Desire (1958)
- Abashiri bangaichi (1959)
- I Will Challenge (1959)
- My Second Brother (1959)
- Wakai hyou no mure (1959)
- Yami ni hikaru me (1960)
- Yami o saku kuchibue (1960)
- Pigs and Battleships (1961)
Director
- Foundry Town (キューポラのある街 Kyūpora no aru machi, 1962)
- Bad Girl, aka Delinquent Girl, aka Each Day I Cry (非行少女 Hiko shōjo, 1963)
- The Girl I Abandoned (私が棄てた女 Watashi ga suteta onna, 1969)
- The Gate of Youth (青春の門 Seishun no mon, 1975)
- The Gate of Youth: Part 2, aka The Gate of Youth: Independence Chapter (青春の門: 自立篇 Seishun no mon: Jiritsu hen, 1977)
- The Baseball Trained Warriors Practice, aka Baseball: The Hard-Trained Heroes – Practice Edition (ザ・ベースボール 鍛え抜かれた勇者たち 練習編, 1978) – Documentary about the Hankyu Braves.
- Taro the Dragon Boy (龍の子太郎 Tatsu no ko Tarō, 1979)
- Child of the Sun (太陽の子 てだのふあ Taiyo no ko teda no fua, 1980)
- Dark Room (暗室 Anshitsu, 1983)
- Friends Love (ふれんず・らぶ Furenzu labu, 1985) – V-Cinema film.
- Yumechiyo's Diary, aka The Diary of Yumechiyo, aka Yume-Chiyo (夢千代日記 Yumechiyo nikki, 1985)
Television
- Hunger Straits (飢餓海峡, 1978) – Episodes 1, 2, 5, 6 and 8. Adapted from the novel Kiga Kaikyō by Tsutomu Mizukami, which also inspired A Fugitive from the Past.
- One Year, aka Year One Class (一年一組, 1979) – Made-for-TV documentary.
References
- ^ a b c d "Urayama Kirio". Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus. Kōdansha. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ "Nihon Eiga Kantoku Kyōkai Shinjinshō" (in Japanese). Directors Guild of Japan. Archived from the original on 22 November 2010. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "3rd Moscow International Film Festival (1963)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
