Which film director has had the most notable films, Emile Ardolino or Seijun Suzuki?
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Emile Ardolino Emile Ardolino (May 9, 1943 – November 20, 1993) was an American film director, choreographer, and producer, best known for his films "Dirty Dancing" (1987) and "Sister Act" (1992).
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Seijun Suzuki Seijun Suzuki (鈴木 清順 , Suzuki Seijun ) , born (24 May 1923 – 13 February 2017), was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre. His increasingly surreal style began to draw the ire of the studio in 1963 and culminated in his ultimate dismissal for what is now regarded as his magnum opus, "Branded to Kill" (1967), starring notable collaborator Joe Shishido. Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal, but he was blacklisted for 10 years after that. As an independent filmmaker, he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taishō Trilogy, "Zigeunerweisen" (1980), "Kagero-za" (1981) and "Yumeji" (1991).
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Jean-Claude Lauzon Jean-Claude Lauzon (September 29, 1953 – August 10, 1997) was a Canadian filmmaker. Born to a humble family in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Lauzon worked a variety of odd jobs after dropping out of high school. He went on to study film at the Université du Québec à Montréal at the behest of Andre Petrowski, a member of the National Film Board of Canada. His two feature-length films, "Night Zoo (Un zoo la nuit)", and "Léolo", established him as one of the most important Canadian directors of his time.
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Shinichirō Watanabe Shinichirō Watanabe (渡辺 信一郎 , Watanabe Shin'ichirō , born May 24, 1965 in Kyoto) is a Japanese anime filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for directing the critically acclaimed and commercially successful anime series "Cowboy Bebop" and "Samurai Champloo".
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Shochiku Shochiku Company Limited (松竹株式会社 , Shōchiku Kabushiki gaisha ) () is a Japanese movie studio and production company for kabuki. It also produces and distributes anime films. Its best remembered directors include Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita and Yōji Yamada. Shochiku has also produced films by highly regarded independent and "loner" directors such as Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, Akira Kurosawa and Taiwanese New Wave director Hou Hsiao-hsien. It is a member of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ), and is one of Japan's Big Four film studios.
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Jean-Jacques Annaud Jean-Jacques Annaud (born 1 October 1943) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for directing "Quest for Fire" (1981), "The Name of the Rose" (1986), "The Bear" (1988), "The Lover" (1992), and "Seven Years in Tibet" (1997). Annaud has received numerous awards for his work, including five César Awards, one David di Donatello Award, and one National Academy of Cinema Award. Annaud's first film, "Black and White in Color" (1976), received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Fighting Elegy Fighting Elegy (けんかえれじい , Kenka erejii ) is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. Filmmaker Kaneto Shindō adapted the script from the novel by Takashi Suzuki. The film has also screened under the titles Violence Elegy, Elegy to Violence, Elegy for a Quarrel and The Born Fighter at various film festivals and retrospectives.
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Sundo Sundo is a 2009 Filipino suspense-thriller film from director Topel Lee, with screenplay written by his Ouija screenwriter Aloy Adlawan. The film stars Robin Padilla, Katrina Halili, Rhian Ramos, Hero Angeles, Mark Bautista and Sunshine Dizon. The film was released on March 18, 2009.
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Sensuela Sensuela is a 1973 Finnish drama film directed and written by Teuvo Tulio. The film is based on Tulio's 1946 film "Rakkauden risti" which itself was based on "The Stationmaster", a short story written by Alexander Pushkin. "Sensuela" was Tulio's final film, and it was met with harsh criticism. Since its release, it has gained a reputation as a campy cult classic and has been called "the weirdest Finnish film ever made". Although the production was finished in 1972, it was not released until a year later and then opened only in selected theatres.
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Salah Abu Seif Salah Abu Seif (Arabic: صلاح أبو سيف‎ ‎ , Ṣalāḥ Abū Sayf ) (May 10, 1915 – June 23, 1996) was one of the most famous Egyptian film directors, and is considered to be the godfather of Neorealist cinema in Egypt. Many of the 41 films he directed are considered Egyptian classics. His film "Bidaya wa nihaya" (1960) was the first adaptation a novel by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
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Satoru Kobayashi (director) Satoru Kobayashi (小林悟 , Kobayashi Satoru ) was a Japanese film director most famous for directing the first "pink film", the type of softcore pornographic films that became the most prolific film genre in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s. Japanese sources claim that Kobayashi directed over 400 "pink films" between 1960 and 1990, making him possibly the most prolific Japanese film director.
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Takeo Kimura filmography The following is the filmography of Takeo Kimura, the Japanese art director, writer, and film director who has art-directed more than 200 films over a span of more than six decades and ranks among Japan's best-known art directors. His training began with the Nikkatsu Company in 1941, whose production division was merged into Daiei during the wartime industry reorganization, where he was promoted to art director in 1945. His debut film as such was "Umi no yobu koe" (1945). Nikkatsu re-opened its production studio in 1954 and Kimura moved there. He worked with several directors, including top action director Toshio Masuda on films such as "Red Quay" (1958) with top star Yujiro Ishihara and "Gangster VIP" (1968) starring Tetsuya Watari. However, his longest and most famous collaboration has been with director Seijun Suzuki, which began with "The Bastard" (1963). Together they developed a bold, expressive style exemplified in "Gate of Flesh" (1964) and "Tokyo Drifter" (1966). Suzuki often rewrote his scripts with Kimura, who was given his first screenwriting credit on "The Flower and the Angry Waves" (1964). Kimura was also a part of Guryū Hachirō, the pen name of the writing group that formed around Suzuki in the mid-1960s and wrote "Branded to Kill" (1967).
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Pistol Opera Pistol Opera (ピストルオペラ , Pisutoru Opera ) is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Makiko Esumi.
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Michel Kammoun Michel Kammoun (Arabic: ميشال كمون‎ ‎ ) (born 1969) is a Lebanese film director.
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The Bastard (1963 film) The Bastard (悪太郎 , Akutarō , The Young Rebel, The Incorrigible One and Bad Boy) is a 1963 Japanese youth film directed by Seijun Suzuki for the Nikkatsu Corporation. It is based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard. The film marked Suzuki's first collaboration with production designer Takeo Kimura.
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The Unsaid The Unsaid is a 2001 thriller/drama film directed by Tom McLoughlin and starring Andy García that was released in 2001. It is also known under the name "The Ties That Bind" and its working title "Sins of the Father". The film was released straight to DVD in the US, UK, and Canada but premiered in theaters in other parts of Europe and Asia.
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Minoru Inuzuka Minoru Inuzuka (犬塚 稔 , Inuzuka Minoru , 15 February 1901 – 17 September 2007) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Starting out as a screenwriter at Shochiku in 1924, he also participated in the production of Teinosuke Kinugasa's "A Page of Madness". When Chōjirō Hayashi (later known as Kazuo Hasegawa) became a jidaigeki star at Shochiku, Inuzuka directed many of his films. After World War II, Inuzuka returned to specializing in screenplays and was known for his scripts for the Zatoichi series. He published his autobiography in 2002, and died in 2007 at the age of 106. When he died, he was called the last surviving director to have directed a silent film in the 1920s. Inuzuka wrote scripts for over 150 films and directed over 50.
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Yoji Yamada Yoji Yamada (山田 洋次 , Yamada Yōji , born September 13, 1931 in Toyonaka, Osaka) is a Japanese film director best known for his "Otoko wa Tsurai yo" series of films and his Samurai Trilogy ("The Twilight Samurai", "The Hidden Blade" and "Love and Honor").
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (director) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (16 December 1946 – 5 November 2014) was a Belgian absurdist film director. He defended "popular" cinema, filming with very small budgets (€2000 to 2500 per film), and using unknown or non-professional actors. He called himself "the director of the absurd".
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Daisuke Itō (film director) Daisuke Itō (伊藤 大輔 , Itō Daisuke , 12 October 1898 – 19 July 1981) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who played a central role in the development of the modern jidaigeki and samurai cinema.
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Masayuki Ochiai Masayuki Ochiai (落合正幸 , Ochiai Masayuki ) is a Japanese film director, mostly famous for "Kansen" and "Saimin".
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Benoît Pilon Benoît Pilon (born July 27, 1962) is a francophone Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative films and documentaries on the human condition. He is also the co-founder of ""Les Films de l’autre" productions", which produces, promotes and helps the development of independent films throughout North America.