List of Japanese film directors explained

This article is a list of Japanese film directors.

A

• Yutaka Abe
• Masao Adachi
• Kyōko Aizome
• Masatoshi Akihara
• Keita Amemiya
• Tetsurō Amino
• Hiroshi Ando
• Hideaki Anno
  • Shinji Aoyama Tarō Araki
• Genjiro Arato
• Mari Asato

D

• Masanobu Deme
• Nobuhiro Doi

F

• • • • • Kei Fujiwara Kinji Fukasaku Jun Fukuda Yasuo Furuhata Tomoyuki Furumaya

G

• • Hideo Gosha Heinosuke Gosho

H

• • Sachi Hamano Tsutomu Hanabusa
    • • • • • • • • • Susumu Hani Masato Harada Yasuharu Hasebe Kazuhiko Hasegawa Ryusuke Hamaguchi Ryōsuke Hashiguchi Kaizo Hayashi Shinji Higuchi Hideyuki Hirayama Ryūichi Hiroki Ishirō Honda

I

• Jun Ichikawa
  • Kon Ichikawa Mako Idemitsu
  • George Iida Takahiko Iimura
• Toshiharu Ikeda
  • Kazuo Ikehiro Yutaka Ikejima
• Kaoru Ikeya
• Kunihiko Ikuhara
  • • • Tadashi Imai Shohei Imamura Shinji Imaoka Hiroshi Inagaki
• Haruo Inoue
• Umetsugu Inoue
• Isshin Inudo
• Minoru Inuzuka
• Yu Irie
  • • • Katsuhito Ishii Sōgo Ishii Takashi Ishii Teruo Ishii
• Yuya Ishii
• Kyōhei Ishiguro
• Noboru Ishiguro
• Hiroshi Ishikawa
• Itsumichi Isomura
  • Juzo Itami Mansaku Itami
    • Daisuke Itō Shunya Itō Shunji Iwai
• Yuki Iwata
• Shigeru Izumiya
• Kazuyuki Izutsu

K

• • Norimasa Kaeriyama Shusuke Kaneko
    • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Yoshikazu Katō Naomi Kawase Yūzō Kawashima Keisuke Kinoshita Teinosuke Kinugasa Ryuhei Kitamura Takeshi Kitano Masaki Kobayashi Satoru Kobayashi Takashi Koizumi Satoshi Kon Masaru Konuma Hirokazu Koreeda Seijirō Kōyama Kei Kumai Tatsumi Kumashiro Minoru Kunizawa Kazuo Kuroki Akira Kurosawa Kiyoshi Kurosawa

M

• Kunitoshi Manda
  • Yasuzo Masumura Toshio Matsumoto
    • • Mitsuru Meike Mitsuhiro Mihara Takashi Miike Takahiro Miki
        • • Kenji Misumi Kōki Mitani Hayao Miyazaki Kenji Mizoguchi Yoshimitsu Morita Katsuyuki Motohiro
    • Kan Mukai Ryū Murakami Minoru Murata

N

• Kenji Nagasaki
  • • • • Shunichi Nagasaki Masahiko Nagasawa Sadao Nakajima Hiroyuki Nakano Tetsuya Nakashima
          • Hideo Nakata Mikio Naruse Giichi Nishihara Katsumi Nishikawa Miwa Nishikawa Yoshitaro Nomura

O

• Mipo O
• Nobuhiko Obayashi
• Masayuki Ochiai
• Motoyoshi Oda
• Akira Ogata (film director)
• Shinsuke Ogawa
• Naoko Ogigami
• Kōhei Oguri
• Kōyū Ohara
• Kihachi Okamoto
• Eiji Okuda
• Shutaro Oku
• Kazuki Ōmori
• Tatsushi Ōmori
• Hideo Onchi
• Mamoru Oshii
• Nagisa Oshima
• Kentarō Ōtani
• Katsuhiro Otomo
  • Keiichi Ozawa Yasujirō Ozu

S

• Sabu (Tanaka Hiroyuki)
• Yoichi Sai (Choi Yang-il)
  • • • • Kōichi Saitō Torajiro Saito Junji Sakamoto Kazuhiro Sano Hirohisa Sasaki
• Hisayasu Satō
  • Junya Sato Shimako Satō
  • Toshiki Satō Yūichi Satō
    • • • • • • Kōji Seki Kazuyoshi Sekine Makoto Shinkai Yasujirō Shimazu Hiroshi Shimizu Takashi Shimizu Kaneto Shindo Kōji Shiraishi
          • Masahiro Shinoda Tetsuo Shinohara Makoto Shinozaki Akihiko Shiota Shinji Sōmai Chūsei Sone
• Sion Sono
  • • Masayuki Suo Nobuhiro Suwa Seijun Suzuki

T

• • • Yūji Tajiri Gō Takamine Lisa Takeba
      • Tetsuji Takechi Tetsuya Takehora Yōjirō Takita Yuki Tanada
      • Eizō Tanaka Noboru Tanaka Tomotaka Tasaka Shūji Terayama
        • • Hiroshi Teshigahara Shirō Toyoda Toshiaki Toyoda Eiji Tsuburaya Yutaka Tsuchiya Shinya Tsukamoto

U

• Eiji Uchida
• Kenji Uchida
• Tomu Uchida
• Toshiya Ueno
• Kirio Urayama
• Kiyohiko Ushihara

W

• • Kōji Wakamatsu Mamoru Watanabe

Y

• • Takeshi Yagi Hitoshi Yazaki
    • • • • • • Yamada Yoji Kazuhiko Yamaguchi Masashi Yamamoto Satsuo Yamamoto Sadao Yamanaka Mitsuo Yanagimachi Keisuke Yoshida Kōta Yoshida
  • Isao Yukisada Yumi Yoshiyuki

Z

• Takahisa Zeze

External links

• Japanese Documentary Retrospective at the Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival of Navarra, Spain