Kon Ichikawa

• Kokoro (1955)
• The Burmese Harp (1956)
• Fires on the Plain (1959)
• Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
• The Makioka Sisters (1983)

Nagisa Oshima

• Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
• Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
• Death by Hanging (1968)
• Boy (1969)
• Empire of Passion (1978)

Kinji Fukasaku

• Black Lizard (1968)
• Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
• Street Mobster (1972)
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
• Battle Royale (2000)

Yoshishige Yoshida

• Akitsu Springs (1962)
• Woman of the Lake (1966)
• The Affair (1967)
• Affair in the Snow (1968)
• Eros Plus Massacre (1969)

Masahiro Shinoda

• Pale Flower (1964)
• With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
• Double Suicide (1969)
• The Petrified Forest (1973)
• Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (1975)

Hayao Miyazaki

• The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
• Castle in the Sky (1986)
• Porco Rosso (1992)
• Spirited Away (2001)

Takeshi Kitano

• Boiling Point (1990)
• A Scene at the Sea (1991)
• Sonatine (1993)
• Hana-bi (1997)
• Kikujiro (1999)

Hirokazu Koreeda

• Maborosi (1995)
• After Life (1998)
• Distance (2001)
• Nobody Knows (2004)
• Still Walking (2008)

Takashi Miike

• Audition (1999)
• Dead or Alive (1999)
• Ichi the Killer (2001)
• Graveyard of Honor (2002)
• Gozu (2003)

Satoshi Kon

• Perfect Blue (1997)
• Millennium Actress (2001)
• Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
• Paranoia Agent (2004)
• Paprika (2006)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

• Cure (1997)
• Barren Illusions (1999)
• Charisma (2000)
• Pulse (2001)
• Tokyo Sonata (2008)

Sion Sono

• Suicide Club (2001)
• Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
• Strange Circus (2005)
• Hazard (2005)
• Love Exposure (2008)