Director
Koji Shiraishi
June 1, 1973 · Fukuoka, Japan
Koji Shiraishi (白石 晃士 Shiraishi Kōji) was born and raised in Fukuoka, Japan. After graduating from Kyushu Sangyo University 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 WATER BOYS.
He cites Gakuryū Ishii as his favorite Japanese director, and Ishii's 1980 Crazy Thunder Road as his favorite film. Other directors he admires include John Carpenter, Brian De Palma, Abbas Kiarostami, and Sam Raimi, and films he enjoy include the original Dawn of the Dead (1978), The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987), The Thing (1982), and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Notable work
Often works with
Chika Kuboyama
8 titles together
Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01: Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman, House of Sayuri, Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 02: Shivering Ghost
Shigeo Ôsako
7 titles together
Grotesque, Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01: Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman, Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 02: Shivering Ghost
Maki Nishiyama
4 titles together
Impossibility Defense, Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01: Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman, Hell Girl
Rie Kuwana
3 titles together
Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman, Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 04: The Truth! Hanako-san in the Toilet, Senritsu Kaiki World Kowasugi!
Rio Kanno
2 titles together
Noroi: The Curse, KINKI
Yoko Chosokabe
2 titles together
Noroi: The Curse, Teke Teke 2
Full filmography · 96
Red Spyder Liles
Director
Upcoming
Super Man Eater
Writer and Director
Upcoming
KINKI
Director
20256.3
白石晃士監督が呪術のように実践してきた恐怖の方程式
as 自己
2025
Red Spider Lilies: The Ascension
Writer and Director
2024
Director's POV Koji Shiraishi on NOROl: The Curse
as 自己
2024
House of Sayuri
Director
20246.7
Koji Shiraishi's Never Send Me, Please Vol.1
as Koji Shiraishi and Director and Writer
2024
Koji Shiraishi's Never Send Me, Please Vol.2
as Koji Shiraishi and Writer and Director
2024
Koji Shiraishi's Never Send Me, Please
cast and Director and Writer
2023
Senritsu Kaiki World Kowasugi!
as Masatsugu Tashiro and Director and Writer
2023
Safe Word
Director
2022