List of Japanese film directors

This article is a list of Japanese film directors.

Contents:

* Top
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

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* 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

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* Masanobu Deme
* Nobuhiro Doi

## F

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

## G

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* Hideo Gosha
* Heinosuke Gosho

## H

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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
* Eiichi Kudo
* Kei Kumai
* Tatsumi Kumashiro
* Minoru Kunizawa
* Kazuo Kuroki
* Akira Kurosawa
* Kiyoshi Kurosawa

## M

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* 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

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

## O

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* 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

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* 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

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

## U

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* Kenji Uchida
* Tomu Uchida
* Toshiya Ueno
* Kirio Urayama
* Kiyohiko Ushihara

## W

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* Kōji Wakamatsu
* Mamoru Watanabe

## Y

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* Takeshi Yagi
* Yamada Yoji
* Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
* Masashi Yamamoto
* Satsuo Yamamoto
* Sadao Yamanaka
* Takashi Yamazaki
* Mitsuo Yanagimachi
* Daihachi Yoshida
* Keisuke Yoshida
* Kōta Yoshida
* Yoshishige Yoshida
* Isao Yukisada
* Yumi Yoshiyuki

## Z

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* Takahisa Zeze

## External links

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

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Cinema of Japan

* Studios

Awards|

| Major seven|

* Kinema Junpo Awards (since 1926)
* Mainichi Film Awards (since 1946)
* Blue Ribbon Awards (since 1950)
* Hochi Film Awards (since 1976)
* Japan Academy Film Prize (since 1978)
* Yokohama Film Festival (since 1980)
* Nikkan Sports Film Awards (since 1988)

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Others|

* Akira Kurosawa Memorial Short Film Competition
* Bunshun Kiichigo Awards
* Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award
* Elan d'or Awards
* Golden Arrow Award
* Japanese Movie Critics Awards
* Japanese Professional Movie Awards

Genres|

* Anime
* Gendai-geki
* Horror
* Jidaigeki
* Samurai cinema
* Pink film
* Science fiction
* Cyberpunk
* Kaiju
* Tokusatsu
* Shoshimin-eiga
* Tendency film
* Yakuza film (Gokudō)

Films|

| By decade|

* pre-1910
* 1910s
* 1920s
* 1930s
* 1940s
* 1950s
* 1960s
* 1970s
* 1980s
* 1990s
* 2000s
* 2010s
* 2020s

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* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024
* 2025
* 2026

Lists|

* List of highest-grossing Japanese films
* List of highest-grossing films in Japan
* List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
* List of Japanese film directors

Other|

* Box office
* Anime News Network
* Crunchyroll
* Japanese New Wave
* Zainichi cinema

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