List of Japanese film directors

This article is a list of Japanese film directors.

A

 * 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

 * 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
 * Ryusuke Hamaguchi
 * Ryōsuke Hashiguchi
 * Kaizo Hayashi
 * Shinji Higuchi
 * Hideyuki Hirayama
 * Ryūichi Hiroki
 * Ishirō Honda

I

 * 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

 * 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
 * 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

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

O

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

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

W

 * Kōji Wakamatsu
 * Mamoru Watanabe

Y

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

Z

 * Takahisa Zeze