Are Ryūichi Hiroki and Maurice Elvey both film directors?
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Ryūichi Hiroki Ryūichi Hiroki (廣木 隆一 , Hiroki Ryūichi , born January 1, 1954) is a Japanese film director. He won critical acclaim for "800 Two Lap Runners". Film critic and researcher Alexander Jacoby has described Hiroki as "one of the modern Japanese cinema's most intelligent students of character".
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Maurice Elvey Maurice Elvey (11 November 1887 – 28 August 1967) was the most prolific film director in British history. He directed nearly 200 films between 1913 and 1957. During the silent film era he directed as many as twenty films per year. He also produced more than fifty films - his own as well as films directed by others.
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Maurice Carter (film designer) Maurice Carter (24 April 1913 in London, England – April 2000 in London, England) was a British production designer. He was one of the first in England to use back projection. He also founded the Guild of Film Art Directors a.k.a. British Film Designers Guild.
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Hiro Narita Hiro Narita (born June 26, 1941) is a Japanese-American cinematographer.
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The Mouth Agape The Mouth Agape (French: La gueule ouverte ) is a 1974 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat. It depicts, in a cinematic realist fashion, a woman going through a terminal illness and also dealing with the tumorous lives of her husband and son. It was one of the least commercially successful of Pialat's films. It was the third film of the ten that he directed before his death in January 2003. It is also known under the titles The Gaping Mouth and The Gaping Maw.
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The River Wanganui The River Wanganui is a 1913 documentary shot in New Zealand in 1912 on the 1912–13 South Pacific film-making voyage of French director Gaston Méliès. Like many of his films shot on that trip, it is now lost.
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The Dying Detective (film) The Dying Detective is a 1921 British short film directed by Maurice Elvey.
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James Williamson (film pioneer) James A. Williamson (8 November 1855 – 18 August 1933) was a Scottish photographer and a key member of the loose association of early film pioneers dubbed the Brighton School by French film historian Georges Sadoul. He is best known for "The Big Swallow" (1901), a trick film with innovative use of extreme close-up, as well as "Fire!" and "Stop Thief!" (both 1901), dramas with continuity established across multiple shots.
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Maurice Devereaux Maurice Devereaux is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and film producer through his production company, Maurice Devereaux Productions.
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Maurice Failevic Maurice Failevic (August 14, 1933 – December 27, 2016) was a French film director. A communist, he directed more than 50 films about class struggles, depicting the lives of members of the French working class, from peasants during the French Revolution to the unemployed, factory workers and banlieue dwellers in the 20th century. He directed films for cinema and television as well as documentaries.
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Bad Boys (1961 film) Bad Boys (不良少年 , "Furyō shōnen" ) is a Japanese film directed by Susumu Hani in 1961 about juvenile delinquents. Since Hani had a background in documentary, he shot "Bad Boys", his first feature-length fiction film, in a documentary style, using "nonprofessional actors, black and white, hand-held cinematography, and location shooting." It was voted the best film of 1961 in the poll of film critics by "Kinema Junpo" and has been considered one of the films to launch the Japanese New Wave. Hani was given the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for directing the film, and Toru Takemitsu was given the Mainichi Film Award for best film score for his work on "Bad Boys" and "Mozu".
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Lily of Killarney (1934 film) Lily of Killarney is a 1934 British musical film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring John Garrick, Gina Malo and Leslie Perrins. The film was made at Twickenham Studios. It is based on the play "The Colleen Bawn" by the Irish writer Dion Boucicault. The film's sets were designed by the art director James A. Carter.
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A Debt of Honour A Debt of Honour is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Isobel Elsom, Clive Brook and Sydney Seaward. It is based on a novel by Ethel M. Dell.
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Mary Girl Mary Girl is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Norman McKinnel, Jessie Winter and Margaret Bannerman.
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Ramai Hayward Patricia Rongomaitara "Ramai" Hayward {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (née Te Miha, 11 November 1916 – 3 July 2014) was a Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu Maori - New Zealander who made films in five countries. Her film career began in 1940 when she co-starred in historical movie "Rewi's Last Stand", after meeting her future husband, legendary New Zealand director Rudall Hayward. The first Māori cinematographer, she spent three years making films in England with Rudall. Later the couple were the first to make English language films in China after the communist revolution.
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L'Épervier L'Épervier (English: The Sparrowhawk ), is a French drama film from 1933, directed and written by Marcel L'Herbier, starring Charles Boyer and Jean Marais. The film was based on a play by Francis de Croisset. It is also known under the title "Les amoureux" (alternative title).
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Nigel Finch Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch (1 August 1949 – 14 February 1995) was an English film director and filmmaker whose career influenced the growth of British gay cinema.
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Ryohei Arai (director) Ryohei Arai (荒井良平 , Arai Ryōhei ) (22 October 1901 – 22 October 1980) was a Japanese film director. He directed films from the 1930s to 1950s, especially jidaigeki and ghost movies based on kaidan.
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Oatsurae Jirokichi Koshi Oatsurae Jirokichi Koshi (御誂治郎吉格子 , Jirokichi the Rat ) is a 1931 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Daisuke Itō. It is the only completely preserved silent film directed by Ito and related the life of a legendary thief, Jirokichi the Rat, in an exquisite original story and through the revolutionary use of dynamic intertitles. The trio composed of director Ito, top-class cinematographer Karasawa and lead actor Denjirō Ōkōchi won great popularity for their masterful work.
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (赤い橋の下のぬるい水 , Akai Hashi no Shita no Nurui Mizu ) is a 2001 Japanese film by director Shōhei Imamura. This was Imamura's last feature film. It was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
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Ted Sharks Ted Sharks (born January 25) is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. He is best known for writing and directing "Hard to Say", "Save the Underprivileged" and "An Ideal Marriage".
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Umetsugu Inoue Umetsugu Inoue (井上 梅次 , Inoue Umetsugu , May 31, 1923 – February 11, 2010) was a Japanese film director and scriptwriter. He directed 115 movies, wrote 101 screenplays, and is credited with the original story for five films. In addition, he worked with all six major Japanese film production companies.