Japan,
1959
Directed by:
Umetsugu InoueCast
Yôko Minamida
Japan
Best movies:
The Crucified Lovers (1954)
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957)
Pigs and Battleships (1961)
Hiroyuki Nagato
Japan
Best movies:
Switching - Goodbye Me (2007)
Insect Woman (1963)
Stolen Desire (1958)
Shirô Ôsaka
Japan
![Ruriko Asaoka](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/217/166217832_58ded8.jpg)
Ruriko Asaoka
Japan
Best movies:
A Story Written with Water (1965)
Steel Edge of Revenge (1969)
Incident at Blood Pass (1970)
Mayumi Shimizu
Japan
Shôichi Ozawa
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Bullet (1968)
Intentions of Murder (1964)
Silence Has No Wings (1966)
Tōru Abe
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Shogun (1980) (series)
Tokyo Story (1953)
![Kō Nishimura](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274883_232daa.jpg)
Kō Nishimura
Japan
Best movies:
Zatoichi at the Fire Festival (1970)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
High and Low (1963)
Toranosuke Ogawa
Japan
Best movies:
Godzilla (1954)
Hiroshi Shiomi
Japan
Shin'ichi Yanagisawa
Japan
Best movies:
Stolen Desire (1958)
The X from Outer Space (1967)
Shirô Amakusa
Japan