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Directors

This is not intended to be any sort of definitive list of the best, just some I want to mention.

Yasujiro Ozu

Kenji Mizoguchi

Akira Kurosawa

Kon Ichikawa

Nagisa Oshima

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Kinji Fukasaku

Takashi Miike

Hayao Miyazaki

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