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Currently, Kazuaki Kiriya is 56 years, 7 months and 1 days old. Kazuaki Kiriya will celebrate 57rd birthday on a Sunday 20th of April 2025. Below we countdown to Kazuaki Kiriya upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Kazuaki Kiriya |
| Occupation | Camera Department |
| Age | 56 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | April 20, 1968 ( Asagiri, Japan, Japan) |
| Birthday | April 20 |
| Town/City | Asagiri, Japan, Japan |
| Nationality | Japan |
Kazuaki Kiriya’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Kazuaki Kiriya was born in the Year of the Monkey. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Monkey thrive on having fun. They’re energetic, upbeat, and good at listening but lack self-control. They like being active and stimulated and enjoy pleasing self before pleasing others. They’re heart-breakers, not good at long-term relationships, morals are weak. Compatible with Rat or Dragon.
In 1983, in his second year of junior high school, he moved to the United States. He attended Cambridge High School and Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts and then the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons The New School for Design. At first, as a student, he aimed to enter the Business world, but through the experience of seeing others' pleasure when he communicated through drawing at times when his English failed him, he came to be more oriented toward the world of art. Beginning in 1994, he became involved in designing album covers, photography, and directing music videos for many recording artists including Hikaru Utada, SMAP, The Back Horn, Mr. Children, Misia, Southern All Stars, GLAY, and Ayumi Hamasaki.
Kiriya is a vegetarian. He was wed to Japanese pop Artist Hikaru Utada from September 6, 2002, until they divorced on March 2, 2007.
Kiriya made his feature film debut in 2004, writing and directing the ambitious live action film adaptation of Casshern. The film was among the first to be shot on a digital backlot. In 2009, he wrote and directed his second film, Goemon (a fantasy epic based on the life of Ishikawa Goemon), in which he also appeared in a cameo as Akechi Mitsuhide. In 2015, Kiriya directed his first English-language film, Last Knights, a reimagining of the legend of the forty-seven ronin.
