
Person
Hiro Murai
Directing · Born 1982-02-01 · Tokyo, Japan
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.
Known for

The Bear
Executive Producer

Widow's Bay
Executive Producer

Snowfall
Director

Barry
Japanese Bomb (voice)

Legion
Director

Atlanta
Director

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Executive Producer

Station Eleven
Executive Producer

Gary
Executive Producer

She Rides Shotgun
Producer
Filmography
- 2026GaryExecutive Producer
- 2026Widow's BayExecutive Producer
- 2026Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories PodcastSelf
- 2025She Rides ShotgunProducer
- 2024Mr. & Mrs. SmithExecutive Producer
- 2022The BearExecutive Producer
- 2021Station ElevenExecutive Producer
- 2021The Choe ShowExecutive Producer
- 2019Guava IslandDirector
- 2018BarryJapanese Bomb (voice)
- 2017Sea OakExecutive Producer
- 2017SnowfallDirector
- 2017LegionDirector
- 2016AtlantaDirector
- 2016Massive Attack, Tricky & 3D - Take It ThereDirector
- 2013Clapping for the Wrong ReasonsDirector
- 2007Drunk HistoryDirector of Photography
- —Man AliveDirector
- —Where I EndProducer
- —StrobeProducer
- —BushidoDirector
- —The Marriage PlotExecutive Producer
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