List of Japanese film directors

This article is a list of Japanese film directors.

A

 * Yutaka Abe
 * Hideaki Anno
 * Shinji Aoyama
 * Tarō Araki
 * 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
 * Ryōsuke Hashiguchi
 * Kaizo Hayashi
 * Shinji Higuchi
 * Hideyuki Hirayama
 * Ryūichi Hiroki
 * Ishirō Honda

I

 * Kon Ichikawa
 * Mako Idemitsu
 * Takahiko Iimura
 * Yutaka Ikejima
 * Shohei Imamura
 * Shinji Imaoka
 * Hiroshi Inagaki
 * Haruo Inoue
 * Katsuhito Ishii
 * Sōgo Ishii
 * Takashi Ishii
 * Teruo Ishii
 * Juzo Itami
 * Daisuke Itō
 * Shunya Itō
 * Shunji Iwai

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
 * 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

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

O

 * Mipo O
 * Kōyū Ohara
 * Kihachi Okamoto
 * Mamoru Oshii
 * Nagisa Oshima
 * 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


 * Masahiro Shinoda
 * Tetsuo Shinohara
 * Makoto Shinozaki
 * Akihiko Shiota
 * Chūsei Sone
 * 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

 * Toshiya Ueno
 * Kiyohiko Ushihara

W

 * Kōji Wakamatsu
 * Mamoru Watanabe

Y

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

Z

 * Takahisa Zeze