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Kirio Urayama
Kirio Urayama
Born	14 December 1930; Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Died	20 October 1985 (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

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]

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)

^ ^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.