Kirio Urayama

Japanese film director (1930–1985)

Kirio Urayama

Born| (1930-12-14)14 December 1930

Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Died| 20 October 1985(1985-10-20) (aged 54)
Occupation(s)| 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[edit]

Born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Urayama graduated from Nagoya University before joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1954.[1] After working as an assistant director to 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. 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.[1]

## Selected filmography[edit]

* 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[edit]

1. ^ a b c d "Urayama Kirio". Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus. Kōdansha. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
2. ^ "Nihon Eiga Kantoku Kyōkai Shinjinshō" (in Japanese). Directors Guild of Japan. Archived from the original on 22 November 2010. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. ^ "3rd Moscow International Film Festival (1963)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2012.

## External links[edit]

* Kiriro Urayama at IMDb

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Blue Ribbon Award for Best Newcomer

1950s|

* Shin Saburi (1950)
* Rentarō Mikuni (1951)
* Yoshitarō Nomura (1953)
* So Yamamura (1954)
* Tsuneo Kobayashi (1955)
* Kōji Nanbara (1955)
* Yoshirō Kawazu (1956)
* Yūjirō Ishihara (1957)
* Shohei Imamura (1958)

1960s|

* Nagisa Ōshima (1960)
* Shima Iwashita (1961)
* Kirio Urayama (1962)
* Junya Sato (1963)
* Mako Midori (1964)
* Kei Kumai (1965)
* Tetsuya Watari (1966)

1970s|

* Tomokazu Miura (1975)
* Shinobu Otake (1975)
* Mieko Harada (1976)
* Nobuhiko Obayashi (1977)
* Toshiyuki Nagashima (1978)
* Kenichi Kaneda (1979)

1980s|

* Daisuke Ryu (1980)
* Kōichi Satō (1981)
* Jun Miho (1982)
* Tomoyo Harada (1983)
* Shōji Kaneko (1983)
* Kōji Kikkawa (1984)
* Yuki Saito (1985)
* Narimi Arimori (1986)
* Masahiro Takashima (1987)
* Naoto Ogata (1988)
* Ayako Kawahara (1989)

1990s|

* Riho Makise (1990)
* Joji Matsuoka (1990)
* Hikari Ishida (1991)
* Yuki Sumida (1992)
* Gorō Kishitani (1993)
* Kyōko Tōyama (1993)
* Sawa Suzuki (1994)
* Makiko Esumi (1995)
* Ninety-nine (1996)
* Kōki Mitani (1997)
* Hitomi Satō (1997)
* Rena Tanaka (1998)
* Ryuhei Matsuda (1999)

2000s|

* Tatsuya Fujiwara (2000)
* Ko Shibasaki (2001)
* Nakamura Shidō (2002)
* Manami Konishi (2002)
* Satomi Ishihara (2003)
* Anna Tsuchiya (2004)
* Mirai Moriyama (2004)
* Mikako Tabe (2005)
* Muga Tsukaji (2006)
* Rei Dan (2006)
* Yui Aragaki (2007)
* Yuriko Yoshitaka (2008)
* Lily Franky (2008)
* Masaki Okada (2009)
* Daisaku Kimura (2009)

2010s|

* Toma Ikuta (2010)
* Nanami Sakuraba (2010)
* Mana Ashida (2011)
* Makita Sports (2012)
* Haru Kuroki (2013)
* Fuka Koshiba (2014)
* Anna Ishii (2015)
* Izumi Okamura (2016)
* Shizuka Ishibashi (2017)
* Sara Minami (2018)
* Nagisa Sekimizu (2019)

2020s|

* Daiken Okudaira (2020)
* Yuumi Kawai (2021)
* Kōki (2022)
* Sōya Kurokawa (2023)

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