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name: "Kyōko Heya"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kyoko-heya"
fi1m_id: "kyoko-heya"
imdb_id: "nm0382163"
tmdb_id: 551587
wikidata_id: "Q11643273"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "1 January 1954"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:42:27.969005+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Kyōko Heya

## Identity

Kyōko Heya

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kyoko-heya
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kyoko-heya
- **IMDb ID:** nm0382163
- **TMDB ID:** 551587
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11643273
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11643273, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0382163/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/551587

Production designer. Born 1 January 1954 in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 1 January 1954, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
- **Also known as:** Kyoko Heya, へや きょうこ, Kyouko Heya
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11643273, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0382163/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/551587

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Battle Royale*](https://film.one/film/battle-royale.md) (83)

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## Biography

Kyōko Heya is a Japanese production designer and art director. Born in 1954 in Minami Ward, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, she has worked extensively in Japanese film and television since at least the early 1990s.

She is credited as production designer on *Battle Royale* (2000) and *Shall We Dance?* (1996), and has contributed art direction or production design to films including *Maborosi* (1995), *When the Last Sword Is Drawn* (2003), *Suspect X* (2008), *Sweet Bean* (2015) and *A Bride for Rip Van Winkle* (2016). Her credits also include *Dreams* (1990) in the art department.

*Sources: imdb.com, shotonwhat.com, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Battle Royale* (2000), Fi1m 83, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/battle-royale.md)

## Complete filmography (55)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *One Last Throw* (2025), Production Design
- *Love Song from Hiroshima* (2025), Production Design
- *River Returns* (2025), as Art Direction
- *Reveal* (2025), Production Design
- *Black Ox* (2024), Production Design
- *Abudeka Is Back* (2024), Art Designer
- *The Village* (2023), as Art Direction
- *Trapped Balloon* (2023), as Art Direction
- *The Brightest Roof in the Universe* (2022), Production Design, Art Direction
- *Ring Wandering* (2022), Production Designer, Art Direction
- *A Family* (2021), as Art Direction
- *Mother’s Bomb-struck Piano* (2020), Production Design
- *Complicity* (2020), Production Design
- *The Master of Funerals* (2019), Production Design
- *The House on the Slope* (2019), series, Production Design
- *Sakura Guardian in the North* (2018), Production Design
- *A Bride for Rip Van Winkle: Serial Edition* (2016), series, as Art Direction
- *A Bride for Rip Van Winkle* (2016), as Art Direction
- *Sweet Bean* (2015), as Art Direction
- *Mysterious Transfer Student* (2014), series, as Art Direction
- *Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer* (2012), Production Design
- *Rock: Wanko no Shima* (2011), Production Design
- *Girls' Compass* (2011), Production Design
- *The Lightning Tree* (2010), Production Design
- *Dogwood Tree* (2010), Production Design
- *Suspect X* (2008), as Art Direction
- *I Just Didn't Do It* (2007), Production Design
- *Sugar & Spice* (2006), Production Design
- *Year One in the North* (2005), Production Design
- *Onmyoji II* (2003), Production Design
- *Women in the Mirror* (2003), Production Design
- *When the Last Sword Is Drawn* (2003), Production Design
- *The Choice of Hercules* (2002), Production Design
- *Onmyoji* (2001), Production Design
- *Firefly* (2001), as Art Direction
- *Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius* (2001), Production Design
- *Battle Royale* (2000), Production Design — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/battle-royale.md)
- *Genji monogatari: Asaki yume mishi* (2000), as Art Direction
- *Jubaku: Spellbound* (1999), Production Design
- *The Exam* (1999), Production Design
- *Bonds* (1998), Production Design
- *Abduction* (1997), Production Design
- *Misty* (1997), as Art Direction
- *Rebirth of Mothra* (1996), Production Design
- *Shall We Dance?* (1996), Production Design
- *Secret Liaisons* (1995), Production Design
- *Maborosi* (1995), as Art Direction · Production Design
- *Kappa* (1994), Production Design
- *The Mystery of Rampo* (1994), Production Design
- *The Friends* (1994), as Art Direction
- *The Tomb & the Divorce* (1993), as Art Direction
- *Nanmin Road* (1992), Production Design
- *Sumo Do, Sumo Don't* (1992), as Art Direction
- *Dreams* (1990), Art Department Assistant
- *Watashi no naka no shōfu* (1984), as Art Direction

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Medal with Purple Ribbon 2016: Medal with Purple Ribbon (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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