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)
- 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)
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