WOMEN OF THE NIGHT
By: Kenji

Tokyo Decadence
Prostitutes, geisha, courtesans, sexual entertainers….something of a speciality of Mizoguchi and Japanese cinema
My favourites:
The Life of Oharu
Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era
Pakeezah
Pandora’s Box
The Goddess
Jeanne Dielman
Straits of Love and Hate
Le Plaisir
The Woman of Rumour
Insect Woman
Belle de Jour
Street of Shame
East of Eden
Klute
(In the great Sansho the Bailiff, prosititution is not a central on-screen feature)
The list below is in year order. Suggestions welcome.

Street of Shame- Kyo Machiko in Mizoguchi’s final film
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01George Loane Tucker
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02Gustav Ucicky
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03Josef von Sternberg
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04William A. Seiter
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05Georg Wilhelm Pabst
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06D.W. Griffith
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07Edgar Selwyn
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08Edward Buzzell
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09George Abbott
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10Georg Wilhelm Pabst
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11Josef von Sternberg
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12Mikio Naruse
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13Yasujirô Ozu
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14Mikio Naruse
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15Wu Yonggang
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16Mikio Naruse
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17Kenji Mizoguchi
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18Kenji Mizoguchi
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19Kenji Mizoguchi
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20Max Ophüls
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21Gregory La Cava
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22John Ford
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23Robert Bresson
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24Jacques Feyder
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25Roberto Rossellini
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26Yves Allégret
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27Alberto Lattuada
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28Kenji Mizoguchi
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29Jules Dassin
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30Ingmar Bergman
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31Mikio Naruse
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32Alberto Gout
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33Alberto Gout
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34Max Ophüls
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35Kenji Mizoguchi
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36Kenji Mizoguchi
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37Tadashi Imai
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38Mario Soldati
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39Kenji Mizoguchi
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40Prakash Arora
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41Kenji Mizoguchi
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42Alberto Lattuada
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43Elia Kazan
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44Heinosuke Gosho
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45Irving Klaw
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46Mikio Naruse
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47Kenji Mizoguchi
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48Lamberto V. Avellana
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49Yuzo Kawashima
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50Mikio Naruse
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51Masaki Kobayashi
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52Yuzo Kawashima
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53Don Chaffey
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54Shirô Toyoda
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55Federico Fellini
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56Roger Corman
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57Alvin Rakoff
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58Shin Sang-ok
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59Antonio Pietrangeli
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60Mauro Bolognini
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61Tomu Uchida
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62Daniel Mann
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63Luchino Visconti
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64Richard Quine
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65Jules Dassin
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66Edward Dmytryk
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67Pier Paolo Pasolini
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68Shôhei Imamura
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69Jean-Luc Godard
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70Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
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71Vasilis Georgiadis
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72Joseph Strick
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73Franklin J. Schaffner
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74Billy Wilder
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75Shôhei Imamura
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76Ken Hughes
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77Russell Rouse
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78Alfred Hitchcock
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79Kô Nakahira
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80Radley Metzger
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81Walter Hugo Khouri
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82Seijun Suzuki
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83Vittorio De Sica
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84Keisuke Kinoshita
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85Seijun Suzuki
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86Gilbert Wolmark
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87Joseph W. Sarno
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88Seijun Suzuki
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89Yasuzo Masumura
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90Joseph W. Sarno
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91Doris Wishman
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92Anton Holden
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93Denys de La Patellière
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94Claude Autant-Lara
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95Jean-Luc Godard
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96Michael Findlay
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97Joseph P. Mawra
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98Luis Buñuel
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99Evald Schorm
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100Teruo Ishii
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101Radley Metzger
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102Philip Saville
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103Sidney Lumet
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104Sam Peckinpah
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105Rogério Sganzerla
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106Herbert Ross
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107Alexis Damianos
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108Alan J. Pakula
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109Joseph Despins
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110Robert Altman
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111Kamal Amrohi
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112Andrzej Żuławski
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113Tatsumi Kumashiro
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114Chor Yuen
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115Chûsei Sone
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116Shunya Ito
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117Mark Rydell
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118Noboru Tanaka
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119Tatsumi Kumashiro
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120Ömer Kavur
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121Ernst Hofbauer
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122Barbet Schroeder
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123Massimo Dallamano
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124Noboru Tanaka
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125Kei Kumai
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126Tatsumi Kumashiro
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127Jesús Franco
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128Chantal Akerman
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129Mario Imperoli
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130Felipe Cazals
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131Noboru Tanaka
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132Martin Scorsese
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133Helma Sanders-Brahms
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134Jesús Franco
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135Bruno Mattei
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136Moshé Mizrahi
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137Clint Eastwood
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138Radley Metzger
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139Bigas Luna
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140Daniel Duval
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141Louis Malle
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142Alberto Lattuada
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143Tony Garnett
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144Emir Kusturica
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145Salvatore Piscicelli
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146Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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147Joseph Losey
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148Richard Loncraine
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149Nick Broomfield
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150Gerry O'Hara
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151Bob Swaim
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152Shinji Sômai
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153Ken Russell
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154Martin Bell
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155Neil Jordan
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156Tony Gatlif
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157Im Kwon-taek
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158Hideo Gosha
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159Đặng Nhật Minh
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160Stanley Kwan
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161Lizzie Borden
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162Claude Chabrol
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163Joe D'Amato
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164Mira Nair
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165Vitali Kanevsky
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166Uli Edel
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167Garry Marshall
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168Frank Henenlotter
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169Pedro Almodóvar
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170Walter Salles
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171Tinto Brass
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172Ken Russell
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173Clint Eastwood
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174Ryû Murakami
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175Charles Sturridge
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176Akio Jissoji
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177Tony Scott
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178Henri Duparc
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179Banmei Takahashi
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180Atom Egoyan
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181Martin Scorsese
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182Nick Broomfield
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183Woody Allen
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184Tran Anh Hung
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185Abel Ferrara
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186Leon Ichaso
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187Pen Densham
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188Mike Figgis
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189Laurent Bouhnik
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190Curtis Hanson
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191Im Kwon-taek
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192Hideo Gosha
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193Francesco Nuti
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194Mike Figgis
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195Philippe Grandrieux
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196Gee-woong Nam
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197Wayne Wang
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198Kim Ki-duk
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199Baz Luhrmann
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200Isabella Sandri
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201Raúl Ruiz
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202Víctor González
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203Buddhadeb Dasgupta
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204Alejandro Chomski
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205Olivier Dahan
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206Lukas Moodysson
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207Patty Jenkins
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208Wong Kar-wai
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209Michael Sturminger
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210Mário Barroso
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211Mario O'Hara
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212João Canijo
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213Emilio Maillé
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214Zana Briski
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215Mika Ninagawa
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216Paul Cox
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217Alex & Niko
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218Sebastian Heidinger
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219Götz Spielmann
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220Valerio Zurlini
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221Amos Gitai
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222Cristian Nemescu
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223Urban Gad
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224Nan Triveni Achnas
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225António-Pedro Vasconcelos
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226Gao Wendong
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227Christian Molina
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228Cho Kyong-duk
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229Steven Soderbergh
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230Frédéric Chane-son
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231Jeanne Labrune
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232Patrick Coyle
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233Sohrab Shahid Saless
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234Ratna Sarumpaet
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235Oscar Cárdenas
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236Saara Waasner
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237Takao Nakano
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238Adolfo Alix Jr.
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239Anton Corbijn
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240Gabrielle Provaas
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241Anton Bormatov
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242Bertrand Bonello
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243Henning Carlsen
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244Michael Glawogger
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245Megan Griffiths
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246Abbas Kiarostami
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247Mikael Marcimain