{{Short description|Japanese film director (1930–1985)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox person | image = Kirio Urayama.jpg | name = Kirio Urayama | birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|12|14|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Hyōgo Prefecture]], Japan | death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|10|20|1930|12|14|df=y}} | death_place = | occupation = Film director, screenwriter | years_active = 1956-1985 }}

{{Nihongo|'''Kirio Urayama'''|浦山 桐郎|Urayama Kirio|14 December 1930 &ndash; 20 October 1985}}<ref name=kotobank>{{cite web|title=Urayama Kirio|url=http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%B5%A6%E5%B1%B1%E6%A1%90%E9%83%8E|work=Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus|publisher=Kōdansha|accessdate=16 May 2011}}</ref> was a Japanese [[film director]] and [[screenwriter]].

==Career== Born in [[Hyōgo Prefecture]], Urayama graduated from [[Nagoya University]] before joining the [[Nikkatsu]] studio in 1954.<ref name=kotobank /> After working as an assistant director to [[Akinori Matsuo]], [[Yūzō Kawashima]] and [[Shohei Imamura]], he debuted as a director with ''[[Foundry Town]]'' in 1962,<ref name=kotobank /> a film that depicted the life of [[Zainichi Korean]] residents of Japan. It helped establish [[Sayuri Yoshinaga]] as a major actress (she would collaborate with Urayama several times, including on his final film ''Yumechiyo's Diary''). Urayama won the [[Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award]] for ''Foundry Town''.<ref name="DGJ1">{{cite web|url=http://www.dgj.or.jp/award_g/ |title=Nihon Eiga Kantoku Kyōkai Shinjinshō |publisher=Directors Guild of Japan |language=Japanese |accessdate=11 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122022302/http://dgj.or.jp/award_g/ |archivedate=22 November 2010 }}</ref> His 1963 film ''[[Bad Girl (1963 film)|Bad Girl]]'' (also known as ''Each day I cry'')<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.eddistribution.com/en/film.php?id_film=78 |title=Archived copy |access-date=19 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225052812/http://www.eddistribution.com/en/film.php?id_film=78 |archive-date=25 February 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was entered into the [[3rd Moscow International Film Festival]] where it won a Golden Prize.<ref name="Moscow1963">{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1963 |title=3rd Moscow International Film Festival (1963) |accessdate=25 November 2012 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116210707/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1963 |archivedate=16 January 2013 }}</ref>

He directed a total of eleven films before his death in 1985 of acute heart failure.<ref name=kotobank />

==Filmography== ===Screenwriter=== * ''[[Victory Is Mine]]'' (1956, co-writer) * ''Ojôsan no sampomichi'' (1960, co-writer) * ''Tōkyō no otenba musume'' (1961, co-writer) * ''Ningen no sabaku'' (1990, posthumous)

===Assistant director=== * ''Burden of Love'' (1955, second assistant director) * ''Ai no onimotsu'' (1955) * ''[[Stolen Desire]]'' (1958) * ''[[Nishi Ginza Station]]'' (1958) * ''[[Endless Desire]]'' (1958) * ''Abashiri bangaichi'' (1959) * ''I Will Challenge'' (1959) * ''[[My Second Brother]]'' (1959) * ''Wakai hyou no mure'' (1959) * ''Yami ni hikaru me'' (1960) * ''Yami o saku kuchibue'' (1960) * ''[[Pigs and Battleships]]'' (1961)

===Director=== * ''[[Foundry Town]]'' (キューポラのある街 ''Kyūpora no aru machi'', 1962) * ''[[Bad Girl (1963 film)|Bad Girl]]'', aka ''Delinquent Girl'', aka ''Each Day I Cry'' (非行少女 ''Hiko shōjo'', 1963) * ''[[The Girl I Abandoned]]'' (私が棄てた女 ''Watashi ga suteta onna'', 1969) * ''[[The Gate of Youth (1975 film)|The Gate of Youth]]'' (青春の門 ''Seishun no mon'', 1975) * ''[[The Gate of Youth: Part 2 (1977 film)|The Gate of Youth: Part 2]]'', aka ''The Gate of Youth: Independence Chapter'' (青春の門: 自立篇 ''Seishun no mon: Jiritsu hen'', 1977) * ''[[The Baseball Trained Warriors Practice]]'', aka ''Baseball: The Hard-Trained Heroes – Practice Edition'' (ザ・ベースボール 鍛え抜かれた勇者たち 練習編, 1978) – Documentary about the [[Orix Buffaloes#Hankyu Braves|Hankyu Braves]]. * ''[[Taro the Dragon Boy]]'' (龍の子太郎 ''Tatsu no ko Tarō'', 1979) * ''[[Child of the Sun (1980 film)|Child of the Sun]]'' (太陽の子 てだのふあ ''Taiyo no ko teda no fua'', 1980) * ''[[Dark Room (1983 film)|Dark Room]]'' (暗室 ''Anshitsu'', 1983) * ''[[Friends Love]]'' (ふれんず・らぶ ''Furenzu labu'', 1985) – [[Direct-to-video#OVA and V-Cinema in Japan|V-Cinema]] film. * ''[[Yumechiyo's Diary]]'', aka ''The Diary of Yumechiyo'', aka ''Yume-Chiyo'' (夢千代日記 ''Yumechiyo nikki'', 1985)

===Television=== * ''Hunger Straits'' (飢餓海峡, 1978) – Episodes 1, 2, 5, 6 and 8. Adapted from the novel ''Kiga Kaikyō'' by [[Tsutomu Mizukami]], which also inspired ''[[A Fugitive from the Past]]''. * ''One Year'', aka ''Year One Class'' (一年一組, 1979) – [[Television film|Made-for-TV]] documentary.

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0881591|Kiriro Urayama}}

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