Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter S

Was a Chinese actor and film director who gained prominence throughout the 1940s through 1950s. Desp

Was a Chinese actor and film director who gained prominence throughout the 1940s through 1950s. Despite his fame, Shi became a victim during the Anti-Rightist Movement in the mid-1950s and committed suicide soon thereafter.Shi's career as an actor began relatively late. His first film was not until 1940's The Chaotic World (dir. Wu Renzhi), and he would not gain broad recognition until after the war, with a series of classic films including Phony Phoenixes (dir. Huang Zuolin) and Long Live the Mistress (dir. Sang Hu).[1]

Is a Beijing-based Chinese filmmaker.After graduating from the directing department of the Beijing C

Is a Beijing-based Chinese filmmaker.After graduating from the directing department of the Beijing Central Drama Academy in 1992, he went on to direct many documentaries and music videos for MTV.He served as assistant director to Zhang Yimou and Lü Yue on their films To Live and Mr. Zhao, respectively. His first feature was A Beautiful New World (Meili Xin Shijie, 1998), a romantic comedy about a peasant who wins an apartment in Shanghai in a lottery.

Was one of Japan's first filmmakers. He worked for the photographer Asano Shiro and his Konishi Came

Was one of Japan's first filmmakers. He worked for the photographer Asano Shiro and his Konishi Camera shop, the first in Japan to import a motion picture camera. Along with Shirai Kanzo, he took the earliest films in Japan, mostly of geisha, Ginza, and selections of scenes from popular plays. His first exhibition was at the Tokyo Kabuki-za in 1899. After that he focused mainly on Kabuki plays.

Was a prolific South Korean film producer and director, with more than 100 producer and 70 director

Was a prolific South Korean film producer and director, with more than 100 producer and 70 director credits. He is most famous for his being kidnapped by the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, for the purpose of producing critically-acclaimed films.

A Japanese anime filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for directing the popular anime

A Japanese anime filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for directing the popular anime series Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo.Watanabe is noted for blending together multiple genres in his anime. For example, in Cowboy Bebop, classic cowboy western mixes with 1940s/1950s New York City film noir, Jazz music and Hong Kong action movies, all while being set in space. In his later work, Samurai Champloo, Watanabe mixes the cultures of Okinawa, hip-hop, modern-day Japan, and samurai.

A Japanese film director and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the

A Japanese film director and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka.Shinji Aoyama was born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, where he attended Kitakyushu Midorigaoka public junior/senior high school. He graduated in 1989 from Rikkyo University, where he majored in film studies in the department of British and American Studies. While he was a student, he was deeply influenced by the theorist and film critic Shigehiko Hasumi, from whom he took classes.

A storyboard artist (especially in anime) and is one of the top special effects wizards in Japan, be

A storyboard artist (especially in anime) and is one of the top special effects wizards in Japan, best known for his work on the Heisei Gamera Trilogy. He works on both anime and tokusatsu projects.As a teenager fan, he started out as one of the four founders of Daicon Films (now Gainax), along with Hideaki Anno, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Takami Akai. A highly talented artist, he worked on many of their early anime and tokusatsu productions, doing storyboarding as well as special effects. Soon, he got to help out special effects director Teruyoshi Nakano as an uncredited assistant for The Return of Godzilla (1984). But his first major FX credit came with Daicon's 1985 low-budget daikaiju epic-comedy, The Eight-Headed Giant Serpent Strikes Back. He continued to be a storyboarder for anime such as Gunbuster (1988) and Otaku no Video (1991), and was the special effects director for Toho/Tsuburaya Productions' 1991 SF-thriller, Mikadoroid.

A Japanese film director and screenwriter. He specializes in feel-good "zero to hero" films, where a

A Japanese film director and screenwriter. He specializes in feel-good "zero to hero" films, where a group of people take up an unlikely activity, face a number of obstacles, but finally succeed. His film Waterboys was particularly successful and led to a TV series which entered its third season in 2005. He was awarded Best Screenplay at the 2005 Yokohama Film Festival for his film Swing Girls.[1]

Was a Japanese documentary film director. Along with Noriaki Tsuchimoto, Ogawa was the most influent

Was a Japanese documentary film director. Along with Noriaki Tsuchimoto, Ogawa was the most influential independent documentary filmmaker in postwar Japan. He began his career at Iwanami Productions (Iwanami Eiga) making PR (public relations) films alongside other important directors such as Tsuchimoto, Kazuo Kuroki, Yoichi Higashi, and Susumu Hani. Turning independent, he first made documentaries about radical political movements in 1960s and 1970s Japan, most famously the "Sanrizuka" or "Narita" series, which recorded the struggle by farmers and student protesters to prevent the construction of the Narita International Airport in Sanrizuka, Chiba Prefecture. Ogawa's was a committed form of documentary, which clearly took the side of those combatting unjust power

Was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards,

Was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards, and is regarded as one of the most important and idiosyncratic filmmakers in the history of cinema. However, despite being one of the greatest Asian directors, he was never Oscar nominated in any category.His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film director, and worked on the screenplays to Imamura's films, The Eel (1997), Dr. Akagi (1998), Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) and 11'9''01 September 11 (2002).

She graduated with a BA in Economics from Nowrosjee Wadia College Pune (Pune University).She further

She graduated with a BA in Economics from Nowrosjee Wadia College Pune (Pune University).She further went on to study film making at the Vancouver film school. Her student film Maya's story has won and been nominated for several awards. She is also the sister of Bollywood actor Masumeh.

A Japanese film director. He is most famous for his comedies and his war films.

A Japanese film director. He is most famous for his comedies and his war films.

Was a Chinese film director who gained prominence in the 1950s in the early years of the People's Re

Was a Chinese film director who gained prominence in the 1950s in the early years of the People's Republic of China.With the turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s, Shui's filmmaking days seemed behind him. However, upon China's re-emergence from the Cultural Revolution, Shui again began to direct films, including Regret for the Past (1981), based on a story by Lu Xun, Blue Flowers (1984).

Was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, writer, director, and photographer. According to many c

Was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, writer, director, and photographer. According to many critics and supporters[1], he was one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan. He was born December 10, 1935, the only son of Hachiro and Hatsu Terayama in Hirosaki city in the northern Japanese prefecture of Aomori. His father died at the end of Pacific War in Indonesia in September 1945. At the age of nine, his mother moved to Kyushu to work at an American military base while he himself went to live with relatives in the city of Misawa, also in Aomori. At this same time, Terayama lived through the Aomori air raids that killed more than 30,000 people.

A Japanese film director and screenwriter.

A Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Iwai is a Japanese film director/video artist, writer and documentarian.Iwai attended Yokohama Natio

Iwai is a Japanese film director/video artist, writer and documentarian.Iwai attended Yokohama National University, graduating in 1987. In 1988 he started out in the Japanese entertainment industry by directing TV dramas and music videos. Then, in 1993, his TV drama, Fireworks, brought him critical praise and an award from the Japanese Director's Association for his portrayal of a group of children in the town of Iioka.

A Japanese filmmaker and screenwriter.Shusuke Kaneko began his career in film with Nikkatsu's Roman

A Japanese filmmaker and screenwriter.Shusuke Kaneko began his career in film with Nikkatsu's Roman Porno film series, in which he served as assistant director to Koyu Ohara. The series also gave Kaneko his directorial debut with writer Koichiro Uno's, Koichiro Uno's Wet and Swinging (1984), which earned Kaneko the Best New Director award at the Yokohama Film Festival.[1][2] He is today best known for his films in the kaiju film genre. [1]

A prolific Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films Ankur (1973), Nishant

A prolific Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975) Manthan (1976) and Bhumika (1977) he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India.[1]He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1976 and the Padma Bhushan in 1991. On 8 August 2007, he was awarded the highest award in Indian cinema for lifetime achievement, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2005. He has won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi seven times.

An Afghan film director and producer. He received an M.A degree in cinema direction from Moscow Film

An Afghan film director and producer. He received an M.A degree in cinema direction from Moscow Film Institute (VGIK) in 1987.He has written a few screenplays and has made a few short films. His first feature film Osama won Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2004.There is a stylistic echo in Osama of the "Afghan" films by the Iranian Makhmalbaf dynasty - father Mohsen's Kandahar and daughter Samira Makhmalbaf's At Five in the Afternoon, the latter also shot in post-Taliban Kabul. Barmak directed Osama with significant funding and assistance from Mohsen Makhmalbaf;

Has worked with a number of renowned Swedish actors, including Mikael Persbrandt, Noomi Rapace, Erla

Has worked with a number of renowned Swedish actors, including Mikael Persbrandt, Noomi Rapace, Erland Josephson, Lena Endre, Lena Olin, Pernilla August, Michael Nyqvist, and Maria Bonnevie. In 2008 Staho was recipient of the Ingmar Bergman Travel Grant.

Is a French-Israeli documentary filmmaker. Her films have been nominated for and/or won the César A

Is a French-Israeli documentary filmmaker. Her films have been nominated for and/or won the César Award, the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film Award, and the Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury Prize (for Mur). She emigrated with her family to Israel as a child in 1966, she later served in the IDF. She describes herself as an "Arab Jew".[1] After settling in France, where she now mainly lives she graduated from the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in 1981.[2][3]

An Iraqi poet and novelist, he also featured in the film About Baghdad and Voices in Wartime.He was

An Iraqi poet and novelist, he also featured in the film About Baghdad and Voices in Wartime.He was born in Baghdad to an Iraqi father and American mother.[2] After emigrating to the United States after the Gulf war, he studied English literature at Baghdad University. His works include I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody Antoon has also directed and co-produced two plays at Middlebury College both in 1998 and 1999; The King is the King and The Elephant.

A controversial poet and filmmaker. He was born in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan and is best known for his

A controversial poet and filmmaker. He was born in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan and is best known for his movies and avant-garde poetry performances.Sono began his career as a poet in 1978 when he was only 17 years old. His poems appeared in popular Japanese publications such as The Modern Poem Book. Afterwards, he enrolled in Hosei University, but left school in mid-course and began making 8 mm films. In 1985, he debuted in the PIA Film Festival with a 30-min experimental short movie, I Am Sion Sono!! (Ore wa Sion Sono da!!), a selection of his poetry being read by him on the screen. In 1987, he participated with the movie A Man's Hanamichi (Otoko no Hanamichi), and won the Grand Prize.

Was an Academy Award-winning English film director and producer, best remembered for big-screen epic

Was an Academy Award-winning English film director and producer, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Brief Encounter, Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage to India. Widely acclaimed and winning the praise of directors such as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, and George Lucas, Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the BFI "Directors Top Directors" poll 2002.

A film director from Japan known for his striking visuals and sometimes outlandish subject matter.Fo

A film director from Japan known for his striking visuals and sometimes outlandish subject matter.For his graduation project, he filmed Crazy Thunder Road (????????????) (1980), again directed with friends of his who were in biker gangs. This film was a based on the Bosozoku aesthetic, and enthralled film studio Toho such that they struck 35 mm prints of the 16 mm film and released it theatrically. It was widely considered controversial, and the Japanese film board Eirin condemned it for presenting violence sympathetically.