Are Bong Joon-ho and Kenji Mizoguchi from the same country?
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Bong Joon-ho Bong Joon Ho (, ] ; born September 14, 1969) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. His films include South Korean hits "Memories of Murder" (2003), based on a true-life serial murder case, monster movie "The Host" (2006), and his first English-language film, science fiction adventure "Snowpiercer" (2013). His latest film is "Okja" (2017), a South Korean-American film, which competed for the "Palme d'Or" in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. "Okja" was subsequently released by Netflix on June 28, 2017.
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Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi (溝口 健二 , Mizoguchi Kenji , May 16, 1898 – August 24, 1956) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
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Kenji Horikawa Kenji Horikawa (堀川 憲司 , Horikawa, Kenji ) is the founder and President of P.A. Works Studio and the Operations Director for Bee Train Productions Inc.
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Kan Kikuchi Hiroshi Kikuchi (菊池 寛 , Kikuchi Hiroshi , December 26, 1888 – March 6, 1948) , known by his pen name Kan Kikuchi (which uses the same kanji as his real name), was a Japanese author born in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. He established the publishing company Bungeishunjū, the monthly magazine of the same name, the Japan Writer's Association and both the Akutagawa and Naoki Prize for popular literature. He came to prominence for the plays "Madame Pearl" and "Father Returns", but his ample support for the Imperial Japanese war effort led to his marginalization in the postwar period. He was also the head of Daiei Motion Picture Company (currently Kadokawa Pictures). He is known to have been an avid player of Mahjong.
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Hakase Suidobashi Hakase Suidobashi (水道橋 博士 , Suidōbashi Hakase , born 18 August 1962, in Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan) is a Japanese comedian who is a member of the comedy duo Asakusa Kid. His real name is Masayoshi Ono (小野 正芳 , Ono Masayoshi ) .
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Shūzō Takiguchi Shūzō Takiguchi (瀧口 修造 , Takiguchi Shūzō , December 7, 1903 – July 1, 1979) was a Japanese poet, art critic, and artist. He was the central figure of orthodox Surrealism in pre- and postwar Japan.
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Yeo Bong-hun Yeo Bong-hun (; born 12 March 1994) is a South Korean footballer who plays as midfielder for Gwangju FC.
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Kenneth K. Tanaka Kenneth Ken'ichi Tanaka (born 1947), also known as Kenshin Tanaka or Ken'ichi Tanaka is a scholar, author, translator and ordained Jōdo Shinshū priest.
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Dong Jin Kim Dong Jin Kim (February 20, 1957 — February 21, 2015) was a Korean American martial artist who primarily studied and taught jujutsu, Hapkido, and Kendo. He was the founder of the JTR Jujutsu martial art. Grand Master Kim held a 9th Dan black belt in Hapkido, as certified by Korea Kido Association, an 8th Dan black belt in jujutsu, as certified by Japan Jigo Tensin-Ryu Jujutsu Seibukan Association, a 7th Dan black belt in Kendo, as certified by Japan Tokyo-Shudokan, and a 5th Dan black belt Tang Soo Do, as certified by the International Tang Soo Do Federation.
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Kim Cheon-heung Kim Cheon-heong (; February 9, 1909 – August 18, 2007) was designated as the first "ingan-munhwage" on 21 December 1968 for the "jongmyo jerye" which is an Important Cultural Property of Korea. He was the master of "haegeum" and "ilmu" (hangul: 일무; hanja: 佾舞), which is a kind of Korean traditional dance during "jongmyo jerye".
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Chung Mong-joon Chung Mong-joon or Chung Mong Joon, (Korean: 정몽준 , born October 17, 1951) is a South Korean businessman and politician. He is the sixth son of Chung Ju-yung, founder of Hyundai, the second-largest South Korean "chaebol" before its breakup in 2003. He remains the controlling shareholder of a Hyundai offshoot, Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, parent of the world's largest shipbuilding company. He is also the chairman of the board of the University of Ulsan and Ulsan College in Ulsan, South Korea. He is the founder and the honorary chairman of The Asan Institute for Policy Studies. He was Honorary Vice-President of FIFA and president of the South Korean football association.
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Judy Joo Judy Joo (born December 9, 1974 in Summit, New Jersey) is an American professional chef and television personality. She is the Chef Patron of Jinjuu Restaurant in London and Hong Kong. She is most known as being the host of Food Network's "Korean Food Made Simple" and an "Iron Chef UK". She splits her time between New York, London and Asia.
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Kazuaki Tanahashi Kazuaki Tanahashi (棚橋一晃 , c. 1933) is an accomplished Japanese calligrapher, Zen teacher, author and translator of Buddhist texts from Japanese and Chinese to English, most notably works by Dogen (he began his translation of "Shobogenzo" in his twenties). He first met Shunryu Suzuki in 1964, and upon reading Suzuki's book "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" he stated, "I could see it's Shobogenzo in a very plain, simple language." He has helped notable Zen teachers author books on Zen Buddhism, such as John Daido Loori. A fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science—Tanahashi is also an environmentalist and peaceworker.
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Kenji Suzuki Kenji Suzuki (鈴木 健二 , Suzuki Kenji , born January 23, 1929) is a former television announcer for the NHK in Japan. He retired in 1988. He is the younger brother of film director Seijun Suzuki.
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Kenji Fujimoto Kenji Fujimoto (藤本 健二 , Fujimoto Kenji , born 1947) is the pen name of a Japanese chef who claimed that he was former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's personal sushi chef from 1988 to 2001. Fujimoto published a memoir in 2003 entitled "I was Kim Jong-il's Cook", detailing many of his experiences with Kim Jong-il. Many people doubted the veracity of his claim. However, Fujimoto, contrary to the prevailing consensus of experts on North Korean politics, asserted that Kim Jong-un (who was relatively unknown at that time), rather than Kim Jong-nam, would be appointed as Jong-il's successor. Fujimoto's prediction proved true when Jong-un succeeded his father as Supreme Leader in December 2011.
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Kenji Miyazawa Kenji Miyazawa (宮沢 賢治 or 宮澤 賢治 , Miyazawa Kenji , 27 August 1896 – 21 September 1933) was a Japanese poet and author of children's literature from Hanamaki, Iwate, in the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He was also known as an agricultural science teacher, a vegetarian, cellist, devout Buddhist, and utopian social activist.
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Steve Gong Steve Gong (traditional Chinese: 鞏睿; born June 16, 1985) is a New York-based photojournalist whose work has exposed life in North Korea. His film, Pyongyang Style, was broadcast around the world as undercover photojournalism of the country under Kim Jong-il. The work comes after two American journalists were detained, until former US President Bill Clinton negotiated their release. He has also won acclaim for his work in Anhui, China winning the Audience Award and the Runner Up Award at the 2007 Salmagundi Film Festival, and for his photojournalistic travels in more than 58 countries
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Kenji Fukui Kenji Fukui (福井 謙二 , Fukui Kenji , born September 8, 1953 Hiroshima) is a Japanese television announcer. He began his broadcasting career in 1976 with Fuji Television, and is one of the three longest-serving television presenters on the Fuji network.
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Jun Kung Joventino Couto Remotigue also known as Jun Kung (; born August 18, 1977) is a drummer, singer and songwriter who resides in Hong Kong.
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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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Bong Tae-gyu Bong Tae-gyu (born 19 May 1981) is a South Korean actor.
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Kinuyo Tanaka Kinuyo Tanaka (田中 絹代 , Tanaka Kinuyo , 29 November 1909 – 21 March 1977) was a Japanese actress and director. She had a career lasting over 50 years with more than 250 credited films, and was best known for her roles in collaboration with director Kenji Mizoguchi over 15 films between 1940 and 1954. She was also a second cousin to director Masaki Kobayashi.