Notable Asian Film Directors
The highest-ranking Asian film directors in the 1992 Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll were Satyajit Ray (India), followed by Yasujirō Ozu (Japan). The highest-ranking Asian film director in the 1992 Sight & Sound Directors' Top Ten Poll was Akira Kurosawa (Japan).
The highest-ranking Asian film directors in the 2002 Sight & Sound critics' and directors' poll were:
- 1. Akira Kurosawa (Japan)
- 2. Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)
- 3. Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan)
- 4. Satyajit Ray (India)
- 4. Kaashinathuni Vishwanath (India)
- 4. S. S. Rajamouli (India)
- 5. Abbas Kiarostami (Iran)
- 6. Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Taiwan)
- 7. Wong Kar-Wai (Hong Kong)
- 8. Guru Dutt (India)
- 8. Mikio Naruse (Japan)
- 8. Edward Yang (Taiwan)
- 11. Hayao Miyazaki (Japan)
- 12. Zhang Yimou (China)
- 12. Nagisa Oshima (Japan)
Other notable Asian film directors include:
- Tareque Masud (Bangladesh)
- Chen Kaige (China)
- Fei Mu (China)
- Jia Zhangke (China)
- Lou Ye (China)
- Tian Zhuangzhuang (China)
- Wang Xiaoshuai (China)
- Wang Quan'an (China)
- John Woo (Hong Kong)
- Johnnie To (Hong Kong)
- Tsui Hark (Hong Kong)
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan (India)
- K. Balachander (India)
- Mani Ratnam (India)
- Ritwik Ghatak (India)
- Riri Riza (Indonesia)
- Bahman Ghobadi (Iran)
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran)
- Samira Makhmalbaf (Iran)
- Ephraim Kishon (Israel)
- Shōhei Imamura (Japan)
- Yasmin Ahmad (Malaysia)
- Shoaib Mansoor (Pakistan)
- Brillante Mendoza (Philippines)
- Ishmael Bernal (Philippines)
- Lino Brocka (Philippines)
- Mike de Leon (Philippines)
- Yam Laranas (Philippines)
- Sergei Bodrov (Russia)
- Bong Joon-ho (South Korea)
- Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)
- Im Kwon-Taek (South Korea)
- Lee Chang-dong (South Korea)
- Park Chan-wook (South Korea)
- Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan)
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey)
- Ang Lee (Taiwan)
Read more about this topic: Asian Cinema
Famous quotes containing the words notable, asian and/or film:
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.”
—Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)