Wikipedia: Film history/Japan

[Teinosuke Kinugasa]?
Masaki Kobayashi
Akira Kurosawa
[Kenji Mizoguchi]?
[Hiroshi Teshigahara]?
Miyazaki Hayao

See also Anime.

um.... we need to standardise the naming scheme here: western or oriental? Miyazaki is his surname, but as far as i know Akira was Kurosawa's first name? -- Asa

why not defer to the imdb's scheme? that's what most people do.