Kiriya Kazuaki is a Japanese film director and photographer born in Asagiri Town, Kuma District, Kumamoto Prefecture. He belongs to KIRIYA PICTURES.

He went to junior high school in Menda Town, but in 1983, dropped out at the end of his second year of junior high school and headed for San Diego, the USA, alone. There he attended the Cambridge School of Weston, an art high school in Massachusetts, where he studied design, music, painting, and photography. After graduating, he went to Parsons New School for Design's Environmental Design Department in 1987 to study architecture but dropped out after two years. When he was 21, he founded a design company but it failed and so he wandered around Europe and Africa.

In 2004, he made his debut as a movie director by making a movie of "Casshan" that he liked as a child. Edit Biography