Cinema of Japan
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Kitano Takeshi
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Koreeda Hirokazu
- Akira Kurosawa (directed Seven Samurai, Tora Tora Tora, Yojimbo, Rashomon)
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Nagisa Oshima
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Takashi Miike
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Tsukamoto Shinya