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Years active
  
1956-1985

Name
  
Kirio Urayama


Role
  
Film director

Died
  
October 20, 1985

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Born
  
14 December 1930 (
1930-12-14
)
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Occupation
  
Film director, screenwriter

Nominations
  
Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year

Movies
  
Foundry Town, Taro the Dragon Boy, A Man Vanishes, Bad Girl, The Gate of Youth

Similar People
  
Sayuri Yoshinaga, Shohei Imamura, Choichiro Kawarasaki, Kazuo Kitamura, Eijiro Tono

Kirio Urayama (浦山 桐郎, Urayama Kirio, 14 December 1930 – 20 October 1985) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

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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. His 1963 film Bad Girl (Each day I cry) was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Golden Prize.

He directed a total of nine films before his untimely 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)
  • References

    Kirio Urayama Wikipedia


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