Directing

Hiro Murai

Born May 13, 1983 · Tokyo, Japan (age 43)

Hiro Murai (born 1983) is a Japanese filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He is best known for music videos for Childish Gambino, Earl Sweatshirt, Chet Faker, and others. His music videos and television work have received widespread acclaim and have earned him a Primetime Emmy Award (for his work as an executive producer on the Hulu series The Bear) and a Grammy Award (for his work on "This Is America"…

Known For

She Rides Shotgun

She Rides Shotgun · 2025

She Rides Shotgun

MovieActionThriller

Newly released from prison and marked for death by unrelenting enemies, Nate must now protect his estranged 11-year-old daughter, Polly, at all costs. With scant resources and no one to trust, Nate and Polly forge a bond under fire as he shows her how to fight and survive—and she teaches him the true meaning of unconditional love.

Gary

MovieDramaComedy

Two friends go on a work trip and encounter unexpected challenges and local personalities as they navigate their assignment. Their efforts to adapt to unfamiliar surroundings highlight moments of humor, small-town culture and the unpredictable nature of work travel. Their experience offers new perspectives on their friendship.

Guava Island

Guava Island · 2019

MovieComedyThriller

Deni Maroon, a musician and dock worker is determined to pull off a music festival against the interests of the local factory owner.

Clapping for the Wrong Reasons

Clapping for the Wrong Reasons · 2013

Clapping for the Wrong Reasons

MovieComedyDrama

"Clapping for the Wrong Reasons" captures Glover as he walks around his L.A. mansion interacting with his various assortment of hanger-ons, including recording music with electronic musician/producer Flying Lotus and even "Boy Meets World" star Danielle Fishel, who is seen picking fruit out of a tree as she recounts a bizarre dream she had.

Massive Attack, Tricky & 3D - Take It There

Massive Attack, Tricky & 3D - Take It There · 2016

Massive Attack, Tricky & 3D - Take It There

The Bear

The Bear · 2022

SeriesDramaComedy

Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.

Snowfall

Snowfall · 2017

SeriesDramaCrime

Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.

Widow's Bay

Widow's Bay · 2026

SeriesDramaComedy

The mayor of a New England town resolves to turn it into the next tourist hot spot, despite local warnings that it's cursed.

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She Rides Shotgun

She Rides Shotgun · 2025

She Rides Shotgun

MovieActionThriller

Newly released from prison and marked for death by unrelenting enemies, Nate must now protect his estranged 11-year-old daughter, Polly, at all costs. With scant resources and no one to trust, Nate and Polly forge a bond under fire as he shows her how to fight and survive—and she teaches him the true meaning of unconditional love.

Producer

Gary

MovieDramaComedy

Two friends go on a work trip and encounter unexpected challenges and local personalities as they navigate their assignment. Their efforts to adapt to unfamiliar surroundings highlight moments of humor, small-town culture and the unpredictable nature of work travel. Their experience offers new perspectives on their friendship.

Executive Producer

Guava Island

Guava Island · 2019

MovieComedyThriller

Deni Maroon, a musician and dock worker is determined to pull off a music festival against the interests of the local factory owner.

Director

Clapping for the Wrong Reasons

Clapping for the Wrong Reasons · 2013

Clapping for the Wrong Reasons

MovieComedyDrama

"Clapping for the Wrong Reasons" captures Glover as he walks around his L.A. mansion interacting with his various assortment of hanger-ons, including recording music with electronic musician/producer Flying Lotus and even "Boy Meets World" star Danielle Fishel, who is seen picking fruit out of a tree as she recounts a bizarre dream she had.

Director

Massive Attack, Tricky & 3D - Take It There

Massive Attack, Tricky & 3D - Take It There · 2016

Massive Attack, Tricky & 3D - Take It There

Director

The Bear

The Bear · 2022

SeriesDramaComedy

Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.

Executive Producer

Snowfall

Snowfall · 2017

SeriesDramaCrime

Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.

Director

Widow's Bay

Widow's Bay · 2026

SeriesDramaComedy

The mayor of a New England town resolves to turn it into the next tourist hot spot, despite local warnings that it's cursed.

Executive Producer

Barry

SeriesComedyCrime

A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.

Director

Legion

SeriesAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.

Director

Atlanta

Atlanta · 2016

SeriesComedyDrama

Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families.

Director

Station Eleven

Station Eleven · 2021

SeriesDramaMystery

The survivors of a devastating flu attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew – while holding on to the best of what’s been lost.

Executive Producer

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Smith · 2024

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

SeriesAction & AdventureComedy

Meet the Smiths: two lonely strangers, John and Jane, who have given up their lives and identities to be thrown together as partners – both in espionage and in marriage.

Executive Producer

Sea Oak

Sea Oak · 2017

SeriesDramaComedy

Genre-bending comedy featuring Aunt Bernie, a meek, working-class woman who dies tragically in a home invasion. Compelled by sheer force of dissatisfaction, she comes back from the dead full of rage, determined to get the life she never had. She proceeds to inflict a range of demands on her immediate family who live in a low-end subsidized hellhole of a housing complex called Sea Oak.

Director

The Choe Show

The Choe Show · 2021

SeriesDocumentary

Renowned artist David Choe turns his eccentric, compassionate and disruptive worldview into a lens for an audience to experience a radical empathy for others. Through art and play, he takes guests on a journey of shared emotional experience.

Executive Producer

Drunk History

Drunk History · 2007

The original web series featuring historical reenactments by A-list comedy/acting talent, presented by Derek Waters and many inebriated history buff storytellers.

Director of Photography