Kôhei Sugiyama was born on June 23, 1899 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. He was a cinematographer and director, known for
Kan no maî (1925),
A Page of Madness (1926) and
Tsukigata Hanpeita: Hana no maki; Arashi no maki (1956). He died on February 21, 1960.