Directing

Kirio Urayama

Born December 14, 1930 · Aioi, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Died October 20, 1985 · aged 54

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

Known For

Pigs and Battleships

Pigs and Battleships · 1961

Pigs and Battleships

MovieCrimeDrama

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

Taro the Dragon Boy

Taro the Dragon Boy · 1979

Taro the Dragon Boy

MovieFantasyAnimation

Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a young boy who has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a dragon.

Endless Desire

Endless Desire · 1958

MovieDramaComedy

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated.

Dark Room

Dark Room · 1983

MovieDramaRomance

A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his lovers uses his affairs for the subjects of his novels.

Yume-Chiyo

Yume-Chiyo · 1985

MovieDramaRomance

Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Though her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in helping a man wrongfully accused of murder and in the process discovers love.

Foundry Town

Foundry Town · 1962

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

The Girl I Abandoned

The Girl I Abandoned · 1969

The Girl I Abandoned

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college. Shimako, a former friend, persuades Yoshioka to meet with Mitsu while she plots to blackmail Yoshioka by photographing the meeting to break up Mariko and Yoshioka.

My Second Brother

My Second Brother · 1959

My Second Brother

The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) girl, it was one of the first films to deal with the subject of zainichi identity and struggles in Japan.

Filmography

Sort

Pigs and Battleships

Pigs and Battleships · 1961

Pigs and Battleships

MovieCrimeDrama

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

Assistant Director

Taro the Dragon Boy

Taro the Dragon Boy · 1979

Taro the Dragon Boy

MovieFantasyAnimation

Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a young boy who has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a dragon.

Director

Endless Desire

Endless Desire · 1958

MovieDramaComedy

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated.

Assistant Director

Dark Room

Dark Room · 1983

MovieDramaRomance

A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his lovers uses his affairs for the subjects of his novels.

Director

Yume-Chiyo

Yume-Chiyo · 1985

MovieDramaRomance

Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Though her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in helping a man wrongfully accused of murder and in the process discovers love.

Director

Foundry Town

Foundry Town · 1962

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

Director

The Girl I Abandoned

The Girl I Abandoned · 1969

The Girl I Abandoned

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college. Shimako, a former friend, persuades Yoshioka to meet with Mitsu while she plots to blackmail Yoshioka by photographing the meeting to break up Mariko and Yoshioka.

Director

My Second Brother

My Second Brother · 1959

My Second Brother

The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) girl, it was one of the first films to deal with the subject of zainichi identity and struggles in Japan.

Assistant Director

A Man Vanishes

A Man Vanishes · 1967

MovieDramaDocumentary

A Man Vanishes examines the concept of Johatsu, tackling the phenomenon of people missing in Japan over the years. It picks one such person from the list, someone who had seemed to disappear from the face of the earth due to embezzlement from his company, and the filmmakers begin an investigative documentary into the reasons behind and attempt at tracking him down.

Assistant Director

The Gate of Youth

The Gate of Youth · 1975

The Gate of Youth

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters. Shinsuke's father dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a kind Korean and a Harley-riding yakuza.

Writer

The Gate of Youth Part 2

The Gate of Youth Part 2 · 1977

The Gate of Youth Part 2

Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.

Writer

Stolen Desire

Stolen Desire · 1958

MovieComedyDrama

A rambunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.

Assistant Director

Abashiri Prison

Abashiri Prison · 1959

Abashiri Prison

MovieCrimeDrama

Also Known As: Abashiri Native Ground

Assistant Director

Nishi Ginza Station

Nishi Ginza Station · 1958

Nishi Ginza Station

MovieComedyDrama

This short comedy concerns the extramarital affair of a drugstore owner. It is based on a popular song by the star of the film, Frank Nagai.

Assistant Director

Bad Girl

Bad Girl · 1963

MovieDramaRomance

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights at a rundown bar, sharing drinks and cigarettes with the lowlife drunks. She has nowhere to turn and no one to talk to, until she is reunited with her childhood friend, Saburo, who brings warmth to her heart.

Director

Child of the Sun

Child of the Sun · 1980

Child of the Sun

A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daughter, Fuuchan. The movie depicts the warm interaction between her and adults that grew up with the rough history of Okinawa and discrimination from the mainland. Shots partly on location at beach of Itoman, Yogi Park and Hateruma Island. This is the movie version of the well-known novel by Kenjiro Haitani.

Director

Ningen no sabaku

Ningen no sabaku · 1990

Ningen no sabaku

Screenplay

Young Panther

Young Panther · 1959

A blockbuster youth action film based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō Akinaga, now adapted for the screen.

Assistant Director

I Will Challenge

I Will Challenge · 1959

I Will Challenge

MovieActionCrime

Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during training, he becomes embroiled in a murder case. His school friend is involved in the case, and Akira also becomes the target of villains...

Assistant Director

Burden of Love

Burden of Love · 1955

MovieComedyDrama

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after the other. - Nikkatsu

Second Assistant Director

Harbour Toast: Victory Is in Our Grasp

Harbour Toast: Victory Is in Our Grasp · 1956

Harbour Toast: Victory Is in Our Grasp

MovieMusicDrama

A sailor tries to help his younger brother, a horse-racing jockey, escape from the yakuza after double crossing them in a fixing scam. Seijun Suzuki's directorial debut.

Screenplay

Yami wo saku kuchibue

Yami wo saku kuchibue · 1960

Yami wo saku kuchibue

MovieCrimeDrama

A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a family that abandoned their home at the bottom of an artificial lake.

Assistant Director

Friends Love

Friends Love · 1985

Straight to Video film.

Director

Phantom Lady

Phantom Lady · 1983

Short film by Akiyuki Nosaka.

Director of Photography