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Top 100 Directors in Japan

The most publicly visible directors in Japan.

Most famous

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

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan	Directors	69.3	0.0
#2	—	YO Yoshiki Okamoto	Japan	Directors	68.4	2.5
#3	new	Sion Sono	Japan	Directors	65.7	0.7
#4	1	Takeshi Kitano	Japan	Directors	64.1	5.6
#5	1	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Japan	Directors	62.1	10.6
#6	1	Hideaki Anno	Japan	Directors	61.7	10.0
#7	1	Kai Asakura	Japan	Directors	59.8	10.0
#8	1	Satoshi Kon	Japan	Directors	59.7	0.9
#9	1	Osamu Tezuka	Japan	Directors	59.5	0.3
#10	1	Isao Takahata	Japan	Directors	59.3	2.2
#11	new	Hironobu Sakaguchi	Japan	Directors	59.1	4.0
#12	2	Kinji Fukasaku	Japan	Directors	58.4	15.2
#13	2	Hitoshi Matsumoto	Japan	Directors	58.3	10.9
#14	2	Takashi Shimizu	Japan	Directors	58.0	2.6
#15	2	Yasujirō Ozu	Japan	Directors	57.9	0.4
#16	2	Soya Kurokawa	Japan	Directors	57.6	25.0
#17	2	Toshio Suzuki	Japan	Directors	57.4	3.8
#18	2	Kon Ichikawa	Japan	Directors	57.3	7.0
#19	new	Naomi Kawase	Japan	Directors	57.1	15.0
#20	3	Takashi Miike	Japan	Directors	57.0	0.0
#21	new	Suzuka Ohgo	Japan	Directors	56.9	10.0
#22	4	Leiji Matsumoto	Japan	Directors	56.8	0.0
#23	4	Hideo Nakata	Japan	Directors	56.6	4.0
#24	4	Shingo Kunieda	Japan	Directors	56.4	25.0
#25	4	Shinya Tsukamoto	Japan	Directors	56.0	15.8
#26	4	Kenji Mizoguchi	Japan	Directors	55.4	0.5
#27	4	Yoshiyuki Tomino	Japan	Directors	54.9	0.0
#28	4	Nobuhiko Obayashi	Japan	Directors	54.7	4.6
#29	4	Shin'ichirō Watanabe	Japan	Directors	54.6	0.4
#30	4	Masanobu Andō	Japan	Directors	54.4	0.0
#31	4	Takahiro Tamura	Japan	Directors	54.4	20.7
#32	4	Masaki Kobayashi	Japan	Directors	54.4	0.0
#33	4	Kō Masaki	Japan	Directors	54.4	10.6
#34	1	Yu Suzuki	Japan	Directors	54.3	1.9
#35	5	Shinobu Hashimoto	Japan	Directors	54.3	14.6
#36	5	Sharaku	Japan	Directors	54.3	0.0
#37	5	Naoto Ohshima	Japan	Directors	54.2	3.7
#38	4	Takanori Jinnai	Japan	Directors	54.0	6.4
#39	4	Sachiko Hidari	Japan	Directors	53.9	7.1
#40	4	Toshihiro Nagoshi	Japan	Directors	53.9	0.0
#41	4	TN Tetsuya Nakashima	Japan	Directors	53.6	17.1
#42	4	Hiromasa Yonebayashi	Japan	Directors	53.4	0.6
#43	4	TT Tsuyoshi Takashiro	Japan	Directors	53.0	25.0
#44	4	YK Yoshiaki Kawajiri	Japan	Directors	53.0	2.4
#45	4	Makoto Wada	Japan	Directors	53.0	15.0
#46	4	Masato Harada	Japan	Directors	52.4	0.0
#47	4	Shinji Sōmai	Japan	Directors	52.2	4.3
#48	4	Hidemaro Fujibayashi	Japan	Directors	52.2	3.1
#49	4	Hideo Gosha	Japan	Directors	52.1	1.5
#50	4	DW Dai Watanabe	Japan	Directors	51.9	15.0
#51	4	Keisuke Kinoshita	Japan	Directors	51.9	0.6
#52	4	Yoshiji Kigami	Japan	Directors	51.9	5.5
#53	4	Kōbō Abe	Japan	Directors	51.7	0.0
#54	4	HK Hisao Kurosawa	Japan	Directors	51.6	20.0
#55	4	Akiyuki Shinbo	Japan	Directors	51.4	0.0
#56	4	Kazuhiro Furuhashi	Japan	Directors	51.3	15.0
#57	4	Nobuhiro Yamashita	Japan	Directors	51.2	5.3
#58	4	Toshio Matsumoto	Japan	Directors	51.0	3.0
#59	4	Senkichi Taniguchi	Japan	Directors	51.0	11.2
#60	4	Hiroyuki Yamaga	Japan	Directors	50.8	10.5
#61	4	RK Ryoichi Kimizuka	Japan	Directors	50.8	5.4
#62	4	Akane Ōsawa	Japan	Directors	50.8	0.0
#63	4	Tomu Uchida	Japan	Directors	50.6	8.4
#64	4	HK Hiroyuki Kobayashi	Japan	Directors	50.6	15.0
#65	4	SS Shinsuke Sato	Japan	Directors	50.4	1.6
#66	4	Zenzo Matsuyama	Japan	Directors	50.4	13.2
#67	4	TI Tatsuya Ishihara	Japan	Directors	50.3	0.4
#68	4	Ibuki Kido	Japan	Directors	50.3	0.0
#69	4	KI Kazuyuki Izutsu	Japan	Directors	50.3	2.1
#70	4	Tatsuyuki Nagai	Japan	Directors	50.2	2.1
#71	4	Fumihiko Sori	Japan	Directors	50.2	5.7
#72	4	TH Takayuki Hirao	Japan	Directors	50.1	10.0
#73	4	Mahiro Maeda	Japan	Directors	50.0	0.3
#74	4	Futoshi Nishiya	Japan	Directors	50.0	0.0
#75	4	MN Mamoru Nagano	Japan	Directors	50.0	0.0
#76	new	Sabu	Japan	Directors	49.9	0.0
#77	new	Daisuke Itō	Japan	Directors	49.9	11.0
#78	6	Masami Ōbari	Japan	Directors	49.8	1.3
#79	6	MT Mitsuru Taoka	Japan	Directors	49.7	7.6
#80	6	GI Gakuryū Ishii	Japan	Directors	49.7	0.1
#81	6	Ryōsuke Hashiguchi	Japan	Directors	49.7	6.7
#82	6	Yuzo Kawashima	Japan	Directors	49.6	2.5
#83	6	Umetsugu Inoue	Japan	Directors	49.6	5.0
#84	new	Kei Kumai	Japan	Directors	49.5	0.0
#85	new	Kōichi Mashimo	Japan	Directors	49.7	1.1
#86	8	Tatsuo Satō	Japan	Directors	49.5	0.0
#87	8	Kōji Yamamura	Japan	Directors	49.4	5.8
#88	8	KH Kazuhiko Hasegawa	Japan	Directors	49.3	0.0
#89	8	Seiji Mizushima	Japan	Directors	49.1	0.0
#90	8	Yasuharu Hasebe	Japan	Directors	49.1	4.7
#91	8	Minoru Kawasaki	Japan	Directors	49.1	1.9
#92	8	Takashi Watanabe	Japan	Directors	49.0	2.7
#93	8	TO Takahiro Omori	Japan	Directors	49.0	4.4
#94	8	Tatsushi Ōmori	Japan	Directors	49.0	1.3
#95	8	MM Masayuki Mori	Japan	Directors	49.0	15.8
#96	8	Masao Adachi	Japan	Directors	48.9	0.5
#97	8	Masaichi Nagata	Japan	Directors	48.9	0.0
#98	88	Keita Amemiya	Japan	Directors	48.9	0.0
#99	9	Yasuichiro Yamamoto	Japan	Directors	48.9	2.7
#100	9	NK Narumi Kakinouchi	Japan	Directors	48.8	1.5