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Top 100 Directors in Japan

The most publicly visible directors in Japan.

Most famous living

The most famous directors in Japan right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

JapanDirectors540 peopleHow fame is measured

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Kai Asakura	Japan	Directors	79.9	10.0
#2	new	Natsuki Hanae	Japan	Directors	79.5	4.2
#3	new	Tenka Hashimoto	Japan	Directors	78.6	25.0
#4	new	Yuzuru Hanyū	Japan	Directors	76.2	0.1
#5	new	Nobuyuki Sakuma	Japan	Directors	76.2	5.4
#6	new	TO Toshio Okada	Japan	Directors	74.2	4.0
#7	new	Shinobu Sakagami	Japan	Directors	74.1	15.0
#8	new	Saaya	Japan	Directors	73.4	13.2
#9	new	Katsuhiro Harada	Japan	Directors	73.2	15.0
#10	new	Yuji Naka	Japan	Directors	70.5	16.7
#11	new	IM Iyo Matsumoto	Japan	Directors	70.0	13.6
#12	new	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan	Directors	69.3	0.0
#13	new	YO Yoshiki Okamoto	Japan	Directors	68.4	2.5
#14	new	Kōji Yamamoto	Japan	Directors	66.4	0.0
#15	new	EW Eriko Watanabe	Japan	Directors	65.8	25.0
#16	new	KS Kotori Shigemoto	Japan	Directors	65.5	16.7
#17	new	Sion Sono	Japan	Directors	65.1	0.0
#18	new	Moriuchi Toshiyuki	Japan	Directors	64.3	0.0
#19	new	Kazuyuki Izutsu	Japan	Directors	64.2	2.1
#20	new	Takeshi Kitano	Japan	Directors	64.1	5.6
#21	new	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Japan	Directors	62.3	10.6
#22	new	Ayaka Ōtsu	Japan	Directors	62.3	15.0
#23	new	Hideaki Anno	Japan	Directors	61.7	10.0
#24	new	Momoko Seto	Japan	Directors	61.0	0.0
#25	new	Mamoru Hosoda	Japan	Directors	60.9	11.5
#26	new	RE Rina Endō	Japan	Directors	59.9	0.0
#27	new	Hironobu Sakaguchi	Japan	Directors	59.1	4.0
#28	new	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japan	Directors	59.0	0.0
#29	new	YK Yūsuke Kobayashi	Japan	Directors	58.9	13.6
#30	new	Makoto Shinkai	Japan	Directors	58.8	0.0
#31	new	Lee Sang-il	Japan	Directors	58.5	10.0
#32	new	Mamoru Oshii	Japan	Directors	58.2	1.1
#33	new	Takashi Shimizu	Japan	Directors	57.9	19.4
#34	new	Hitoshi Matsumoto	Japan	Directors	57.8	10.0
#35	new	Soya Kurokawa	Japan	Directors	57.8	25.0
#36	new	Takehiko Inoue	Japan	Directors	57.5	0.5
#37	new	Hideo Nakata	Japan	Directors	57.4	12.1
#38	new	Toshio Suzuki	Japan	Directors	57.4	3.8
#39	new	Naomi Kawase	Japan	Directors	57.2	15.0
#40	new	Takashi Miike	Japan	Directors	57.0	0.0
#41	new	Yūya Yagira	Japan	Directors	57.0	0.0
#42	new	Suzuka Ohgo	Japan	Directors	56.9	10.0
#43	new	YT Yūki Tai	Japan	Directors	56.9	0.0
#44	new	Naoko Yamada	Japan	Directors	56.5	9.0
#45	new	Shingo Kunieda	Japan	Directors	56.4	25.0
#46	new	Kurumi Inagaki	Japan	Directors	56.4	25.0
#47	new	Gorō Miyazaki	Japan	Directors	56.2	0.0
#48	new	Ryohei Suzuki	Japan	Directors	56.1	2.9
#49	new	Shinya Tsukamoto	Japan	Directors	56.0	15.8
#50	new	Hiroyuki Imaishi	Japan	Directors	56.0	5.0
#51	new	Katsuo Fukuzawa	Japan	Directors	55.5	25.0
#52	new	Hideo Ishikawa	Japan	Directors	55.4	5.9
#53	new	Murakami Mai	Japan	Directors	55.3	8.7
#54	new	Takeshi Fukunaga	Japan	Directors	55.2	8.9
#55	new	Tadanori Yokoo	Japan	Directors	55.1	8.6
#56	new	Aoi Itō	Japan	Directors	55.1	11.0
#57	new	Yoshiyuki Tomino	Japan	Directors	54.9	0.0
#58	new	Shin'ichirō Watanabe	Japan	Directors	54.8	0.4
#59	new	Yuno Nagao	Japan	Directors	54.7	22.9
#60	new	Yoshinori Kobayashi	Japan	Directors	54.7	15.0
#61	new	HT Hiroyuki Takashima	Japan	Directors	54.7	25.0
#62	new	Hiro Murai	Japan	Directors	54.7	0.0
#63	new	Masanobu Andō	Japan	Directors	54.6	0.0
#64	new	Yu Suzuki	Japan	Directors	54.5	2.3
#65	new	Takao Ōsawa	Japan	Directors	54.5	0.6
#66	new	AK Akira Kobayashi	Japan	Directors	54.3	2.7
#67	new	Naoto Ohshima	Japan	Directors	54.2	3.7
#68	new	YS Yuki Sakurai	Japan	Directors	54.2	25.0
#69	new	TA Tsuyoshi Abe	Japan	Directors	54.2	1.3
#70	new	Toshihiro Nagoshi	Japan	Directors	54.1	0.0
#71	new	Takanori Jinnai	Japan	Directors	54.0	6.4
#72	new	Yōji Yamada	Japan	Directors	53.9	0.0
#73	new	KW Kirato Wakayama	Japan	Directors	53.9	25.0
#74	new	Tetsuya Nakashima	Japan	Directors	53.8	17.1
#75	new	Yuya Ishii	Japan	Directors	53.7	12.5
#76	new	SU Shin'ya Ueda	Japan	Directors	53.6	16.5
#77	new	Naoki Hamaguchi	Japan	Directors	53.5	10.0
#78	new	Sara Honda	Japan	Directors	53.5	22.1
#79	new	RU Rina Uchiyama	Japan	Directors	53.4	5.9