Direction: Kirio Urayama

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Kirio Urayama. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Taro, the Dragon Boy

1979 · Movie · 75 min. · Japan

Direction Kirio Urayama

Plot Lazy and selfish Taro loves to eat and sleep and wrestle with the animals. With no direction in his life, a wizard appears that gives him a special potion. With...

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Each Day I Cry

1963 · Movie · 116 min. · Japan

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Masako Izumi · Mitsuo Hamada · Jun Hamamura · Minako Katsuki

Plot Living in a small coast village, Wakae, a 15 years old teenager, works in a bar as a hostess. Her mother is dead and her father, alcoholic and poor, is...

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The Girl I Abandoned

1969 · Movie · 116 min. · Japan

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Choichiro Kawarazaki · Toshie Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Chikako Natsumi

Plot Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu,...

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Foundry Town

1962 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Mitsuo Hamada · Eijirô Tono · Shoichi Ozawa

Plot Set in Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of poor foundry workers and their families, and one girl's dreams of self-improvement...

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The Diary of Yumechiyo

1985 · Movie · 128 min. · Japan

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Kinya Kitaoji · Kirin Kiki · Mayumi Ogawa

Plot The beautiful Yumechiyo returns home with the crushing news that her atom-bomb-induced illness is leukemia. With less than 6 months to live she falls in love with a young man.

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Child of the Sun

1980 · Movie · 142 min. · Japan

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Jun Hamamura · Shôji Ishibashi · Toshitaka Itô · Choichiro Kawarazaki

Plot Time is 1975. Fumiko Omine who lives in Kobe city is a girl of elementary school sixth grader, and is called "mother" from the surroundings. My father suddenly became unstable...

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The Gate of Youth

1975 · Movie · 188 min. · Japan

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Ken Tanaka · Tomohiro Tanabe · Ken Matsuda · Haruhiko Urayama

Plot 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....

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The Gate of Youth Part 2

1977 · Movie · 161 min. · Japan

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Dark Room

1983 · Movie · 122 min. · Japan

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Kôji Shimizu · Rie Kimura · Mayumi Miura · Yoshimi Ashikawa

Plot Nakata, a writer, lives with the painful memory of the death of his wife, whose life was cut short a few years earlier. Was it an accident or was it...

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