is a Japanese film director

Film director

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, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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, and occasional actor

Actor

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. He is primarily known for directing Japanese horror films, most notably The Curse.

Background

Kōji Shiraishi was born and raised in Fukuoka

Fukuoka

Fukuoka most often refers to the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture.It can also refer to:-Locations:* Fukuoka, Gifu, a town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan* Fukuoka, Toyama, a town in Toyama Prefecture, Japan...

, Japan. After graduating from Kyushu Sangyo University

Kyushu Sangyo University

was founded in 1960 in Fukuoka City, and currently has twenty departments and six graduate schools. It is a private university.-Undergraduate Faculties and departments:*Faculty of Economics**Department of Economics*Faculty of Commerce**Department of Commerce...

 with a degree in film making, he went on to work as an assistant director on such films as Gakuryū Ishii's August in the Water and Shinobu Yaguchi's

Shinobu Yaguchi

is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He specializes in feel-good "zero to hero" films, where a group of people take up an unlikely activity, face a number of obstacles, but finally succeed. His film Waterboys was particularly successful and led to a TV series which entered its third...

 Waterboys

Waterboys (film)

is a 2001 comedy film written and directed by the Japanese film director Shinobu Yaguchi, about five boys who start a synchronized swimming team at their high school...

.

He cites Gakuryū Ishii as his favorite Japanese director, and Ishii's Crazy Thunder Road

Crazy Thunder Road

is a 1980 Japanese science fiction-action-biker film written and directed by Sōgo Ishii. Ishii made the film as his graduation project whilst studying at Nihon University and was subsequently distributed by Toei Studios.-Cast:*Tatsuo Yamada as Jin...

(1980) as his favorite film. Other directors he admires include John Carpenter

John Carpenter

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, Brian De Palma

Brian De Palma

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, Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami

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, and Sam Raimi

Sam Raimi

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, and films he enjoy include the original Dawn of the Dead (1978), The Evil Dead

The Evil Dead

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(1981), Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

Evil Dead II

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(1987), The Thing (1982), and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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(1974).

Filmography

• Suiyō puremia: sekai saikyō J horā SP Nihon no kowai yoru (2004, made-for-TV)
• Za horā kaiki gekijō: Kaiki! Shinin shōjo (2004, short film)
• The Curse (2005)
• Bakkan! Gurabia teikoku (2007, TV series)
• Carved
  Carved (film)
  Carved with the Japanese title Kuchisake-onna, is a J-Horror movie, released on August 14, 2007, directed by Kôji Shiraishi and written by Naoyuki Yokota and Kôji Shiraishi....
  
  (2007)
• Ura horā (2008, direct-to-video
  Direct-to-video
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  )
• Grotesque
  Grotesque (2009 film)
  is a 2009 Japanese splatter horror film written and directed by Kōji Shiraishi.-Plot:The doctor is one who's always gotten what he wanted; this has only created more depraved and extreme needs, so he kidnaps a random couple, Aki and Kazuo , two young people who, after a few years working in the...
  
  (2009)
• Occult
  Occult (2009 film)
  Occult is a 2009 J-Horror, "found footage" film in the form of a documentary. The movie was written and directed by Kôji Shiraishi.-Plot:...
  
  (2009)
• Teketeke (2009)
• Teketeke 2 (2009)
• Shirome (2010)
• Chō Akunin (2011)