Kōji Shiraishi

I have such a soft spot for Kōji Shiraishi, this Fukuoka-born horror lifer who's now well into his fifties but still makes movies like a feral teenager who just got his hands on a camcorder. He's one of those directors who hands the camera to the actors, slaps a "this is a real recording" face on the whole thing, and gleefully lies straight to your eyes, and that handmade, low-budget audacity is exactly what gets me. The fact that he writes and edits his own stuff too tells you he's obsessed in the best way, a true author scrappily controlling every frame. He'll let dread simmer forever, then floor the gas into pure chaos, and every single time I just laugh and go, "got me again." I'll take a stubborn guy swinging his obsessions around full-force over polished mainstream gloss any day.

Kōji Shiraishi is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and film editor born on June 1, 1973, in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. He is known for working across all three roles on his projects, maintaining hands-on creative control from script through post-production. Shiraishi is particularly recognized in the horror genre, noted for his found-footage style that blurs the line between fiction and documentary.

Name (English)

Kōji Shiraishi

Name (Japanese)

白石晃士

Reading

しらいし こうじ

Born

June 1, 1973 (age 53)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Ox

Origin

Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Film Director / Screenwriter / Film Editor

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%99%BD%E7%9F%B3%E6%99%83%E5%A3%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3817802

Tags

• From Fukuoka Prefecture
• Film Director
• Screenwriter
• Film Editor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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