(born 16 July 1941
) is a Japanese
film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
.
Career
Born in
Gifu Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Gifu Prefecture has a population of 1,910,511 () and has a geographic area of . Gifu Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to the north; Ishikawa Prefecture ...
, Kōyama attended
Nihon University
, abbreviated as , is a private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School (currently the Department of Law), was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice, in 1889. The university's name is derived from the Ja ...
but quit midway to join the independent production company
Kindai Eiga Kyokai, where he worked as an assistant director under such directors as
Kaneto Shindō,
Kōzaburō Yoshimura
was a Japanese film director.
Biography
Born in Shiga Prefecture, he joined the Shōchiku studio in 1929. He debuted as director with a short film in 1934, but, after being denied a promotion by head of the studio Shirō Kido, continued working ...
, and
Tadashi Imai
was a Japanese film director known for social realist filmmaking informed by a left-wing perspective. His most noted films include '' An Inlet of Muddy Water'' (1953) and '' Bushido, Samurai Saga'' (1963).
Life
Although leaning towards left-win ...
.
He made his directorial debut in 1971 with the
children's film
A children's film, or family film, is a film genre that generally relates to children in the context of home and family. Children's films are made specifically for children and not necessarily for a general audience, while family films are made f ...
''
Koi no iru mura''.
His second film, ''
Futatsu no hāmonika'' (1976), earned him a
New Directors Citation from the
Directors Guild of Japan.
His 1983 film ''
Hometown'' was entered into the
13th Moscow International Film Festival.
His 1987 film, ''
Hachiko Monogatari'', about the faithful dog
Hachikō, was the top Japanese film at the box office that year. He is known for his humanistic perspective.
Kōyama was given the
Chunichi Culture Award in 2000 for "producing films that scrutinize the age and the region."
Selected filmography
* ''Koi no iru mura'' (鯉のいる村) (1971)
* ''Futatsu no hāmonika'' (二つのハーモニカ) (1976)
* ''
Hometown'' (1983)
* ''
Hachiko Monogatari'' (1987)
* ''
Tōki Rakujitsu'' (1992)
* ''Toki no Kōro'' (時の行路) (2019)
* ''Shinpei'' (2025)
References
External links
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Japanese film directors
1941 births
Living people
People from Gifu Prefecture
Nihon University alumni