20s-30s-40s

• Ozu
• Kinugasa

50s-60s

• Kurosawa: Dreams, Seven Samurai
• Mizoguchi: 47 Ronin, Crucified Lovers, Utamaro, Miss Oyu...
• Teshigahara: Face of Another
• Kobayashi
• Honda
• Masumura: The Blue Sky Maiden, 
• Okamoto
• Naruse

70s-80s

• Kumashiro: Yakuza, Bitterness of Youth
• Terayama
• Yoshida: Eros Massacre, Woman of The Lake 
• Shinoda: Himiko
• Wakamatsu: Go Go Second Time Virgin
• Yoshimura: Onibaba
• Oshima
• Imamura
• Yanagimachi
• Fukasaku

80s-90s-atual

• Obayashi
• Kiyoshi Suzuki: Tokyo Drifter, gate of Flesh, Branded to Kill
• Iwai: Picnic, Love Letter, A Bride...
• Somai: The Friends
• Ishii
• Kitano: Hana-Bi, Sonatine, Violent Cop...
• Miike
• Sono: Love Exposure
• Kawase: Embracing, Suzako
• Shimizu