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Hiro Murai

Directing

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Directed credits

9

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TMDB popularity

0.6

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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 6All crew credits: 18

TMDB ID: 1199903

IMDb ID: nm2033604

Known for: Directing

Born: May 13, 1983

Age: 43

Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2007 - 2026

Years active: 20

Average TMDB rating: 7.46

Wikidata: Q28154065

Also known as

ひろ むらい • ヒロ・ムライ

Frequent jobs

Director (8)Director of Photography (1)Executive Producer (7)Producer (2)

Biography

Hiro Murai (born 1983) is a Japanese filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He is best known for music videos for Childish Gambino, Earl Sweatshirt, Chet Faker, and others. His music videos and television work have received widespread acclaim and have earned him a Primetime Emmy Award (for his work as an executive producer on the Hulu series The Bear) and a Grammy Award (for his work on "This Is America"). He rose to prominence with his work on the FX series Atlanta (2016–2022), created by and starring frequent collaborator Donald Glover, on which he served as a director and producer. For his work on the series, he received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He would also serve as a director on four episodes of the HBO comedy-drama series Barry (2018–2023), and as a director and executive producer on the HBO limited series Station Eleven (2021–2022), the latter of which also garnered him a further Primetime Emmy Award nomination. He directed five episodes of the 2026 horror-comedy-drama series Widow's Bay, starring Matthew Rhys. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hiro Murai, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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