Toshiki Satō (サトウトシキ, Satō Toshiki; born May 6, 1961) a.k.a. 佐藤としき, 佐藤俊喜, and 本藤新 is a Japanese film director and…
Toshiki Satō (サトウトシキ, Satō Toshiki; born May 6, 1961) a.k.a. 佐藤としき, 佐藤俊喜, and 本藤新 is a Japanese film director and screenwriter best known for his pink films of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Takahisa Zeze, Kazuhiro Sano and Hisayasu Satō, he is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink" (ピンク四天王, pinku shitenno).
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Shozin Fukui (福居ショウジン, Fukui Shōjin; 29 July 1961 – 2 April 2026) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was…
Shozin Fukui (福居ショウジン, Fukui Shōjin; 29 July 1961 – 2 April 2026) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was best known for his contributions to the cyberpunk genre.
Atsuki Satō (佐藤 敦紀（あつき）, Satō Atsuki; born 1961), sometimes erroneously identified in English as Atsunori Satō, is a…
Atsuki Satō (佐藤 敦紀（あつき）, Satō Atsuki; born 1961), sometimes erroneously identified in English as Atsunori Satō, is a Japanese film director, visual effects supervisor, special effects director, and film editor. He won the award for Best Film Editing at the 40th Japan Academy Prize for his work on Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi's Shin Godzilla and was nominated for the Best Visual Effects accolade at the 16th Asian Film Awards for his work on Higuchi's Shin Ultraman.
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Norio Tsuruta (鶴田 法男, Tsuruta Norio; born December 30, 1960) is a Japanese film director. He directed Premonition…
Norio Tsuruta (鶴田 法男, Tsuruta Norio; born December 30, 1960) is a Japanese film director. He directed Premonition, Dream Cruise, and Orochi: Blood.
Yuji Nakae (中江 裕司, Nakae Yūji) is a Japanese film director who specializes in films set in Okinawa, featuring Okinawan…
Yuji Nakae (中江 裕司, Nakae Yūji) is a Japanese film director who specializes in films set in Okinawa, featuring Okinawan music, language, themes and atmosphere. He shared the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for his debut film, Pineapple Tours, which was an omnibus film co-directed with Tsutomu Makiya and Hayashi Tōma. He won the award for Best Director at the 25th Hochi Film Award for Nabbie's Love.
🎓 University of the Ryukyus🏫 Rakuhoku High School📅 Born November 16🎂 Born 1960📍 From Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture💼 Film Director
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Kazuhiro Kiuchi (きうちかずひろ [木内一裕], Kiuchi Kazuhiro; born September 14, 1960 in Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Japan) is a Japanese…
Kazuhiro Kiuchi (きうちかずひろ [木内一裕], Kiuchi Kazuhiro; born September 14, 1960 in Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist, film director and novelist. As a manga writer, he is best known for the series Be-Bop High School, which won the 1988 Kodansha Manga Award for the general category and was adapted as series of live-action movies and as a 7 episode anime OVA series. He was director of one segment of Killers.
🎓 Fukuoka University🏫 Fukuoka University Affiliated Ohori High School📅 Born September 14🎂 Born 1960📍 From Fukuoka Prefecture💼 Manga Artist💼 Film Director💼 Screenwriter
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Takashi Miike (三池 崇史, Miike Takashi; born 24 August 1960) is a Japanese filmmaker and actor. He has directed over 100…
Takashi Miike (三池 崇史, Miike Takashi; born 24 August 1960) is a Japanese filmmaker and actor. He has directed over 100 films and television productions, in a variety of genres such as action, children's films, comedy, drama, horror, musicals, and jidaigeki period dramas. He is best known internationally for the horror films Audition (1999), Ichi the Killer (2001), Visitor Q (2001), Gozu (2003), and One Missed Call (2003). He is also known for samurai and yakuza films such as Dead or Alive (1999), Graveyard of Honor (2002), 13 Assassins (2010), earning a Japan Academy Film Prize nomination for Director of the Year, and Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011). He has also acted in more than 20 films. Miike spent much of his career as a controversial figure who had several of his films criticized for their extreme graphic violence and other transgressive content, especially Ichi the Killer, which was banned in several countries. However, in his later career, he shifted towards work more acceptable to the mainstream; his films Hara-Kiri and Straw Shield (2013) were both nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, while both Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) and 13 Assassins were nominated for the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion. Several of his films have developed cult followings.
🎓 Japan Institute of the Moving Image🏫 Josho Gakuen High School📅 Born August 24🎂 Born 1960📍 From Yao, Osaka💼 Film Director
Masato Ishioka (石岡正人, Ishioka Masato) is a Japanese director, screenwriter and business executive who had an early…
Masato Ishioka (石岡正人, Ishioka Masato) is a Japanese director, screenwriter and business executive who had an early career as an adult video (AV) director.
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Isshin Inudo (犬童 一心, Inudō Isshin; born 24 June 1960) is a Japanese film director.
Katsurō Onoue (尾上 克郎, Onoue Katsurō; born June 4, 1960) is a Japanese special effects director and visual effects…
Katsurō Onoue (尾上 克郎, Onoue Katsurō; born June 4, 1960) is a Japanese special effects director and visual effects supervisor.
🏫 Saga Nishi High School📅 Born June 4🎂 Born 1960📍 From Ichikikushikino, Kagoshima Prefecture💼 Film Director
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Nobuhiro Suwa (諏訪 敦彦, Suwa Nobuhiro; born May 28, 1960 in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture) is a Japanese film director…
Nobuhiro Suwa (諏訪 敦彦, Suwa Nobuhiro; born May 28, 1960 in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture) is a Japanese film director working in Japan and France. His directorial works and screenplays often make use of improvisation techniques. Currently, Suwa is the President of Tokyo Zokei University.
Takahisa Zeze (瀬々敬久, Zeze Takahisa; born 24 May 1960) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter first known for his…
Takahisa Zeze (瀬々敬久, Zeze Takahisa; born 24 May 1960) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter first known for his soft-core pornographic pink films of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Satō, and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink" (ピンク四天王, pinku shitennō). In recent years, he has directed such major commercial hits as 64: Part I, 64: Part II, and The 8-Year Engagement, while continuing to make independent art films like Heaven's Story and The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine.
Hideaki Anno (Japanese: 庵野 秀明, Hepburn: Anno Hideaki; born May 22, 1960) is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and actor.…
Hideaki Anno (Japanese: 庵野 秀明, Hepburn: Anno Hideaki; born May 22, 1960) is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and actor. His most celebrated creation, the Evangelion franchise, has had a significant influence on the anime television industry and Japanese popular culture. Anno's style is defined by his postmodernist approach and the extensive portrayal of characters' thoughts and emotions. Anno began his career while attending Osaka University of Arts as an animator for the anime series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982–1983), and produced the Daicon III and IV Opening Animations. He did not gain recognition until the release of his work on Hayao Miyazaki's 1984 film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Anno went on to become one of the co-founders of Gainax in December 1984. He worked as an animation director for their first feature-length film, Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (1987), and ultimately became Gainax's premiere anime director, leading the majority of the studio's projects, including Gunbuster (1988) and Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990–1991). Anno's next project was the anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995–1996). Timing constraints at Gainax also forced Anno to replace the planned ending of Evangelion with two episodes set in the main characters' minds. In 1997, Gainax launched a project to re-adapt Evangelion's scrapped ending into a feature-length film. Budgeting issues left the film unfinished, and the completed 27 minutes of animation were included as the second act of Evangelion: Death and Rebirth. Eventually, the project culminated in The End of Evangelion, a two-act film that served as a finale to Neon Genesis Evangelion. Anno wrote and directed the Rebuild of Evangelion film series from 2007 to 2021, written to be more accessible to non-fans than the original anime series and films were. Anno's other directorial works include Daicon Film's Return of Ultraman (1983), Gunbuster (1988), Kare Kano (1998), Love & Pop (1998), Shiki-Jitsu (2000), Cutie Honey (2004), Re: Cutie Honey (2004), and Shin Godzilla (2016), with the latter film marking the beginning of the Shin trilogy of tokusatsu franchise reboots, followed by Shin Ultraman (2022) and Shin Kamen Rider (2023). Several of Anno's anime have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award, including Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water in 1990, Neon Genesis Evangelion in 1995 and 1996, and The End of Evangelion in 1997.
🎓 Osaka University of Arts🏫 Ube High School📅 Born May 22🎂 Born 1960📍 From Ube, Yamaguchi💼 Anime💼 Screenwriter💼 Film Director💼 Producer
Shinya Tsukamoto (塚本 晋也, Tsukamoto Shin'ya; born January 1, 1960) is a Japanese filmmaker and actor. With a…
Shinya Tsukamoto (塚本 晋也, Tsukamoto Shin'ya; born January 1, 1960) is a Japanese filmmaker and actor. With a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad, Tsukamoto is best known for his body horror/cyberpunk film Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), which is considered the defining film of the Japanese Cyberpunk movement, as well as for its companion pieces Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) and Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009). His other films include Tokyo Fist (1995), Bullet Ballet (1998), A Snake of June (2002), Vital (2004), Kotoko (2011) and Killing (2018). In addition to starring in almost all his films, Tsukamoto has also appeared as an actor in films by other directors, including Martin Scorsese, Takashi Miike and Hideaki Anno. He has been cited as an influence on popular western filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher, Darren Aronofsky and The Wachowskis.
🎓 Nihon University🏫 Nihon University Tsurugaoka High School📅 Born January 1🎂 Born 1960📍 From Tokyo💼 Film Director💼 Actor
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Shin Togashi (冨樫森, Togashi Shin) is a Japanese film director.
Tatsuya Ishii (石井竜也, Ishii Tatsuya), also known as Tatuya Ishii (born September 22, 1959) is a Japanese…
Tatsuya Ishii (石井竜也, Ishii Tatsuya), also known as Tatuya Ishii (born September 22, 1959) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, artist, and industrial designer from Ibaraki Prefecture.
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Tetsuya Nakashima (中島哲也) (born 1959) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was born in Fukuoka, attending…
Tetsuya Nakashima (中島哲也) (born 1959) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was born in Fukuoka, attending high school in Chikushino. His 2010 film Confessions was awarded Best Picture at the Japanese Academy Awards, where Nakashima was also awarded Director of the Year and Screenplay of the Year. At the Asian Film Awards, the film was nominated for Best Film and Best Director, among other categories. Confessions was also selected as the Japanese entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards and made the final shortlist in January 2011. Nakashima was given the Best Director award at the 2005 Yokohama Film Festival for his film Kamikaze Girls, which also won Best Film. For Kamikaze Girls, he also won Best Film and Best Director at the 14th Japan Film Professional Awards. His 2006 film Memories of Matsuko received 14 nominations at the 30th Japanese Academy Awards, including Picture of the Year and Director of the Year. In 2014, he was nominated for the Audience Choice Award at the Chicago International Film Festival, for his film The World of Kanako. He was originally slated to direct an adaptation of the hit manga Attack on Titan, but in December 2012 he left the project due to differences with the rest of the production team.
🎓 Meiji University🏫 Chikushi High School📅 Born September 2🎂 Born 1959📍 From Fukuoka Prefecture💼 Film Director💼 Director
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Keita Amemiya (雨宮 慶太, Amemiya Keita; born 24 August 1959) is a Japanese film and television director, screenwriter and…
Keita Amemiya (雨宮 慶太, Amemiya Keita; born 24 August 1959) is a Japanese film and television director, screenwriter and character designer from Urayasu, Chiba. He directed the films Mirai Ninja (1988), Zeiram (1991), Kamen Rider ZO (1993), and Kamen Rider J (1994), and created the tokusatsu franchise Garo in 2005.
Hisayasu Satō (佐藤 寿保, Satō Hisayasu; born 15 August 1959 in Shizuoka City, Japan) is a Japanese exploitation film…
Hisayasu Satō (佐藤 寿保, Satō Hisayasu; born 15 August 1959 in Shizuoka City, Japan) is a Japanese exploitation film director. He has worked prolifically in the genre of pinku eiga films, which refers to Japanese films that prominently feature nudity or sexual content. His best-known works are the 1992 pink film The Bedroom and the 1996 V-Cinema splatter film Splatter: Naked Blood. He is known for his "sledgehammer" filmmaking style, and using his exploitation career to tackle serious subjects like obsession, alienation, perversion and voyeurism. He has been likened to Canadian director David Cronenberg due to his penchant for body horror as well as dark eroticism. Along with fellow directors Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Satō and Takahisa Zeze, he is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink" (ピンク四天王, pinku shitenno).
🎓 Tokyo Polytechnic University📅 Born August 15🎂 Born 1959📍 From Shizuoka(city), Shizuoka Prefecture💼 Film Director
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George Iida (飯田 譲治, Iida Jōji; born 1 March 1959) is a Japanese film and television director, screenwriter, manga…
George Iida (飯田 譲治, Iida Jōji; born 1 March 1959) is a Japanese film and television director, screenwriter, manga author, and novelist. Iida has worked continually in Japan's film, television, anime and manga industries since the early 1980s, predominantly in the genres of horror and science fiction.
Akira Ogata (緒方明) is a Japanese film director. He was given the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for his…
Akira Ogata (緒方明) is a Japanese film director. He was given the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for his film, Boy's Choir, in 2000, and then won the award for best director at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival for Nonchan Noriben.
Ganari Takahashi (高橋がなり, Takahashi Ganari) is a Japanese adult video director and company founder. He founded Soft On…
Ganari Takahashi (高橋がなり, Takahashi Ganari) is a Japanese adult video director and company founder. He founded Soft On Demand (SOD), one of the largest adult video conglomerates in Japan.
🏫 Yokohama Tateno High School📅 Born December 15🎂 Born 1958📍 From Kanagawa Prefecture💼 Company President・Entrepreneur💼 Film Director
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Junji Sakamoto (阪本 順治, Sakamoto Junji; born October 1, 1958 in Sakai, Osaka) is a Japanese film director.
Mitsutoshi Tanaka (田中光敏; born 24 September 1958 in Urakawa, Hokkaido) is a Japanese film and commercial director. He is…
Mitsutoshi Tanaka (田中光敏; born 24 September 1958 in Urakawa, Hokkaido) is a Japanese film and commercial director. He is president and CEO of Osaka-based film production firm Creators' Union and widely known for award-winning feature films such as Godai - The Wunderkind (2020), 125 Years Memory (2015), Blossoms Bloom (2014) and Ask This of Rikyu (2013). He has received numerous awards, including the Kinema Junpo Best Ten Readers' Choice Award for Best Japanese Director for his period drama Godai - The Wunderkind and the Japan Academy Film Prize as Excellent Director for the Japanese-Turkish co-production 125 Years Memory.
Minoru Kawasaki (河崎実), born 15 August 1958, is a Japanese filmmaker, best known for low-budget parody films featuring…
Minoru Kawasaki (河崎実), born 15 August 1958, is a Japanese filmmaker, best known for low-budget parody films featuring surreal humour and traditional practical effects. Kawasaki began his career with mostly self-financed work, including the Den-Ace short films, featuring a parody of kyodai-style Japanese superheroes, before working on Tsuburaya Production's Ultraman Tiga (1996-1997). He had his first hit with The Calamari Wrestler (2004), about a wrestler who inexplicably becomes a giant squid. He followed this up with Executive Koala (2005), about an anthropomorphic koala salaryman who may or may not have murdered his wife, and Kabuto-O Beetle (also 2005), another wrestling-themed movie, this time with a giant stag beetle. In 2006, he released The World Sinks Except Japan, a spoof of Shinji Higuchi's remake of Japan Sinks, and Crab Goalkeeper (also 2006), a film Kawasaki describes as being his Forrest Gump (1994). Kawasaki has also directed 2008's Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit, a sequel to the 1967 Shochiku kaiju film The X from Outer Space. While the original, made during the height of Japan's "Kaiju Boom" (1966–1967), is "played straight", the sequel is another parody. Kawasaki has since directed two more kaiju films: Kaiju Mono (2016) and Monster Seafood Wars (2020).
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Takanori Jinnai (陣内孝則, Jinnai Takanori; born August 12, 1958 in Okawa, Fukuoka) is a Japanese actor, film director, and…
Takanori Jinnai (陣内孝則, Jinnai Takanori; born August 12, 1958 in Okawa, Fukuoka) is a Japanese actor, film director, and singer. He made his directorial debut with Rockers (ロッカーズ or Rokkazu), a 2003 film based on his years as vocalist for the punk rock band The Rockers (ザ・ロッカーズ). He was nominated best actor for a Japanese Academy Award three times, once in 1988 and twice in 1989. He won the award for Best Actor at the 12th Hochi Film Awards for Chōchin.
Hitomi Kamanaka (鎌仲ひとみ, Kamanaka Hitomi) (born 11 June 1958, Toyama Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese documentary…
Hitomi Kamanaka (鎌仲ひとみ, Kamanaka Hitomi) (born 11 June 1958, Toyama Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese documentary filmmaker known particularly for her films on nuclear power and radiation.
Ryoichi Kimizuka (君塚良一, Kimizuka Ryōichi; born 21 April 1958, in Minato, Tokyo) is a Japanese screenwriter and director…
Ryoichi Kimizuka (君塚良一, Kimizuka Ryōichi; born 21 April 1958, in Minato, Tokyo) is a Japanese screenwriter and director for television and film.
Hiroyuki Nakano (中野裕之, Nakano Hiroyuki; born 1958 in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese film director.
🎓 Waseda University🏫 Fukuyama Seishikan High School📅 Born January 22🎂 Born 1958📍 From Fukuyama, Hiroshima💼 Writer・Novelist💼 Film Director
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Kiyoshi Sasabe (佐々部清) (January 8, 1958 – March 31, 2020) was a Japanese film director.
Kaoru Ikeya (池谷薫, Ikeya Kaoru) (born 14 October 1958) is a Japanese documentary film director. He directed the…
Kaoru Ikeya (池谷薫, Ikeya Kaoru) (born 14 October 1958) is a Japanese documentary film director. He directed the documentary The Ants (2006). His work addresses the topics of war and Japanese military history. His film Runta (2015) deals with the political situation in Tibet. while Senzo Ni Naru (2013), about the aftermath of March, 11 2011 earthquake, was screened at the Berlin Festival.
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Tomorowo Taguchi (田口 トモロヲ, Taguchi Tomorowo; born November 30, 1957) is a Japanese actor, film director and musician.…
Tomorowo Taguchi (田口 トモロヲ, Taguchi Tomorowo; born November 30, 1957) is a Japanese actor, film director and musician. After leaving Dokkyo University without graduating, he started to earn his living as an illustrator, writer and pornographic cartoonist. He joined a theatre called Hakken no Kai in 1978 and he made a screen debut in Zokubutsu Zukan (based on the book by Yasutaka Tsutsui) in 1982. He was also a prominent cult musician in the Tokyo underground scene with his band Bachikaburi in the 1980s and early 1990s. He is probably most well known to the West as the lead actor in Tetsuo and Tetsuo II directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. He also makes regular appearances in Takashi Miike's films. He became known to the Japanese public as a narrator for the TV documentary series Project X - Challengers which aired between 2000 and 2005 on NHK. Taguchi has directed 3 films, Iden & Tity in 2003, Shikisoku Generation in 2009, and Piece of Cake in 2015.
Makoto Satō (佐藤 真 Satō Makoto, September 12, 1957 – September 4, 2007) was a Japanese documentary film director. Among…
Makoto Satō (佐藤 真 Satō Makoto, September 12, 1957 – September 4, 2007) was a Japanese documentary film director. Among his best-known films were Living On the River Agano, which describes people around the Agano River where incidents of Niigata Minamata disease were discovered, and Self and Others. His final film, Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said (2005), was named Best Documentary at the 2006 Mainichi Film Awards.
🎓 University of Tokyo🏫 Fuji High School📅 Born September 12🎂 Born 1957📍 From Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture💼 Film Director
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Kaizo Hayashi (林 海象, Hayashi Kaizō; born July 15, 1957) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He made his…
Kaizo Hayashi (林 海象, Hayashi Kaizō; born July 15, 1957) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with To Sleep so as to Dream (1986). He is best known for his neo-noir Maiku Hama trilogy, The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994), Stairway to the Distant Past (1995) and The Trap (1996). In addition to film, Hayashi served as creative director on the 2000 Konami video game 7 Blades for the PlayStation 2, and was director for two episodes of Power Rangers: Time Force.
🎓 Ritsumeikan University🏫 Ritsumeikan High School📅 Born July 15🎂 Born 1957📍 From Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture💼 Film Director💼 Producer💼 Screenwriter
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Masayuki Ochiai (落合正幸, Ochiai Masayuki) is a Japanese film director. His films include Kansen and Saimin.
Masayuki Suo (周防 正行, Suo Masayuki; born October 29, 1956) is a Japanese film director. He is best known for his two…
Masayuki Suo (周防 正行, Suo Masayuki; born October 29, 1956) is a Japanese film director. He is best known for his two Japan Academy Prize-winning films, Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992) and Shall We Dance? (1996).
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Joji Tani (Japanese: 谷譲治, Hepburn: Tani Jōji), known as Screaming Mad George (October 7, 1956 – February 10, 2026), was…
Joji Tani (Japanese: 谷譲治, Hepburn: Tani Jōji), known as Screaming Mad George (October 7, 1956 – February 10, 2026), was a Japanese special effects artist, film director and musician. He was born in Osaka, Japan, and emigrated to the United States, where he became known for his surreal, grotesque and gory special effects. He collaborated with director and producer Brian Yuzna on many films.
🏫 Rissho Gakuen Osaka Ritsumeikan High School📅 Born October 7🎂 Born 1956📍 From Osaka Prefecture💼 Artist💼 Film Director💼 Singer・Vocalist💼 Instructor
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Kozo Nagayama (永山耕三, Nagayama Kozo; born on July 22, 1956, in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese television and film director.
🎓 Seijo University🏫 Gakushuin High School📅 Born July 22🎂 Born 1956📍 From Tokyo💼 Director💼 Film Director
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Shunichi Nagasaki (長崎俊一, Nagasaki Shun'ichi; 18 June 1956) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
Tohjiro or TOHJIRO (June 17, 1956 – July 17, 2026) was a Japanese adult video (AV) director and the founder of the AV…
Tohjiro or TOHJIRO (June 17, 1956 – July 17, 2026) was a Japanese adult video (AV) director and the founder of the AV studio Dogma.
Tatsuya Mori (森 達也, Mori Tatsuya; born 10 May 1956) is a Japanese documentary filmmaker, TV director, and author.
Naoto Takenaka (竹中 直人, Takenaka Naoto; born March 20, 1956) is a Japanese actor, comedian, singer, whistler, and…
Naoto Takenaka (竹中 直人, Takenaka Naoto; born March 20, 1956) is a Japanese actor, comedian, singer, whistler, and director from Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, affiliated with From First Production. He is married to idol singer and actress Midori Kinouchi. He is also known as the voice of Samuel L. Jackson in the dubbed version of the Avengers film series as Nick Fury.
🎓 Tama Art University🏫 Kanto Gakuin Mutsura High School📅 Born March 20🎂 Born 1956📍 From Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture💼 Actor💼 Film Director💼 Voice Actor💼 TV Personality💼 Comedy💼 Singer・Vocalist
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Kazuhiro Sano (佐野和宏, Sano Kazuhiro; born in 1956) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor best known for…
Kazuhiro Sano (佐野和宏, Sano Kazuhiro; born in 1956) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor best known for his pink films of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Takahisa Zeze, Toshiki Satō and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink" (ピンク四天王, pinku shitenno). Sano's films differ from those of other Pink film directors of the time in that, while not necessarily optimistic or upbeat, they are more concerned with relationships and romance than violence and sadism. He has the distinction of winning the Best Director prize three consecutive years at the Pink Grand Prix. He has also been given two Best Actor awards, two Best Actor second place awards, and a Best Screenplay award at this ceremony.
Masashi Yamamoto (山本政志, Yamamoto Masashi) (born 24 January 1956) is a Japanese film director.
Kunitoshi Manda (万田 邦敏, Manda Kunitoshi; born 1956 in Tokyo) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and film critic.
Yōjirō Takita (滝田 洋二郎 Takita Yōjirō, born December 4, 1955) is a Japanese filmmaker. Takita received an Oscar for Best…
Yōjirō Takita (滝田 洋二郎 Takita Yōjirō, born December 4, 1955) is a Japanese filmmaker. Takita received an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for his 2008 drama Departures. It marked the first time a Japanese film won the award after the category first became competitive in 1957.
Yukihiko Tsutsumi (堤幸彦, Tsutsumi Yukihiko; born November 3, 1955 in Yokkaichi, Mie) is a Japanese television and film…
Yukihiko Tsutsumi (堤幸彦, Tsutsumi Yukihiko; born November 3, 1955 in Yokkaichi, Mie) is a Japanese television and film director. He began directing commercials and music promotion videos as an employee of Nippon Television. After spending time abroad, he returned and started his own production company, Office Crescendo, from which he works independently. His first television drama on Nippon Television was called Kora! Tonneruzu and ran from 1985 to 1989. He directed Taitei no Ken, an original work by Baku Yumemakura, in 2007.
🎓 Hosei University🏫 Aichi High School📅 Born November 3🎂 Born 1955📍 From Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture💼 Stage Director💼 Film Director
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa (黒沢 清, Kurosawa Kiyoshi; born July 19, 1955) is a Japanese filmmaker, critic, author, actor, and a…
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (黒沢 清, Kurosawa Kiyoshi; born July 19, 1955) is a Japanese filmmaker, critic, author, actor, and a former professor at Tokyo University of the Arts (2005–23). Noted for his psychological films that often focus on ambiguous narratives and on their characters' inner turmoils and quests for meaning and connections, he is best known for his contributions to psychological horror and Japanese horror, notably his acclaimed 1997 film Cure and his 2001 film Pulse, although he has also worked in a variety of other genres. While most of his work has been in Japanese, two of his films, Daguerrotype (2016) and Serpent's Path (2024; a remake of his own 1998 film of the same name), were in French. Kurosawa received the Medal with Purple Ribbon for his contributions to Japanese cinema, in 2021. The New York Times stated that Kurosawa "is to psychological fright what David Cronenberg is to body horror."
🎓 Rikkyo University🏫 Rokko Junior and Senior High School📅 Born July 19🎂 Born 1955📍 From Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture💼 Film Director💼 Screenwriter💼 Film Critic💼 Writer・Novelist
Hiroshi Sugawara (菅原 浩志; 1955 – 12 November 2025) was a Japanese film director, producer and screenwriter. He died from…
Hiroshi Sugawara (菅原 浩志; 1955 – 12 November 2025) was a Japanese film director, producer and screenwriter. He died from pancreatic cancer on 12 November 2025, at the age of 70.
🏫 Sapporo Keisei High School📅 Born July 4🎂 Born 1955📍 From Naganuma, Hokkaido💼 Film Director💼 Screenwriter💼 Producer
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Shusuke Kaneko (金子 修介, Kaneko Shūsuke; born June 8, 1955) is a Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for revitalizing…
Shusuke Kaneko (金子 修介, Kaneko Shūsuke; born June 8, 1955) is a Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for revitalizing the kaiju genre with the critically acclaimed Heisei Gamera film trilogy (Gamera: Guardian of the Universe in 1995, Gamera 2: Attack of Legion in 1996, and Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris in 1999) and Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001). Kaneko has also worked across a wide range of genres throughout his career. He began directing in the early 1980s at Nikkatsu, with several entries in the studio's Roman Porno (pink film) series before transitioning to mainstream cinema. His other notable credits include Summer Vacation 1999 (1988), Necronomicon (1993), Pyrokinesis (2000), the action manga adaptation Azumi 2: Death or Love (2005), and the live-action adaptations of Death Note and its sequel Death Note 2: The Last Name (both 2006).
🎓 Tokyo Gakugei University🏫 Mitaka Secondary School📅 Born June 8🎂 Born 1955📍 From Tokyo💼 Film Director
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