Kirio Urayama

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 Zainichi Korean residents of Japan He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for that film His 1963 film Bad Girl Each day I cry was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Golden Prize He directed a total of nine films before his death in 1985