Directors

The role of a director

The artistic and dramatic aspects and visualization of a screenplay (or script) is controlled by a film director. They guide the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of the film's vision. The director's key role in selecting the cast members, production design and all creative aspects of filmmaking.

Under the European Union law, the director is seen as the author of the film.

Film in Japan

The cinema of Japan (日本映画, Nihon eiga, also known domestically as 邦画 hōga, "domestic cinema") has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021 , it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced.

Japanese Directors

Kinji Fukasaku	Yasuzo Masumura	Kon Ichikawa	Shohei Imamura	Teruo Ishii	Akira Kurosawa
Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Takeshi Kitano	Takashi Miike	Hayao Miyazaki	Kihachi Okamoto	Takao Okawara
Nagisa Ōshima	Kaneto Shindo	Seijun Suzuki	Shinya Tsukamoto	Koji Wakamatsu	Yasujirō Ozu

Western Directors

John Carpenter	David Cronenberg	Francis Ford Coppola	David Fincher	Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick	David Lynch	Robert Rodriguez	Martin Scorsese	Steven Spielberg
Martin Campbell	Quentin Tarantino	Tim Burton	David Lean	Chris Columbus

Foreign / World Directors

Michelangelo Antonioni

Sources

Bean-Mellinger, Barbara (December 27, 2018). "The Average Film Director Salary Per Movie". Career Trend. Leaf Group. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
Pascal Kamina (2002). Film Copyright in the European Union. Cambridge University Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-1-139-43338-9.