FILM DIRECTOR

Ishirō Honda

1911 - 1993

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Ishirō Honda (Japanese: 本多 猪四郎（いしろう）, Hepburn: Honda Ishirō, 7 May 1911 – 28 February 1993) was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 46 feature films in a career spanning five decades. He is acknowledged as the most internationally successful Japanese filmmaker prior to Hayao Miyazaki and one of the founders of modern disaster film, with his films having a significant influence on the film industry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ishirō Honda has received more than 758,957 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Ishirō Honda is the 393rd most popular film director (down from 305th in 2019), the 596th most popular biography from Japan (down from 414th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Japanese Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ishirō Honda ranks 393 out of 2,041. Before him are Robert Benton, Gerard Damiano, Wolfgang Reitherman, Edward Yang, Jacques Copeau, and Paolo Sorrentino. After him are Luigi Comencini, Mervyn LeRoy, John McTiernan, Gene Deitch, Karel Reisz, and Tony Gatlif.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Ishirō Honda ranks 95. Before him are Betty Robinson, Karl Frenzel, Viktor Barna, André Leroi-Gourhan, André Claveau, and Hans Woellke. After him are Józef Cyrankiewicz, Alfredo Foni, Maureen O'Sullivan, Shiing-Shen Chern, Martin Sandberger, and Franz Binder. Among people deceased in 1993, Ishirō Honda ranks 76. Before him are Kenneth E. Boulding, Desanka Maksimović, Salah Jadid, Myrna Loy, John Connally, and Maurice Yaméogo. After him are Tatiana Nikolayeva, Matthew Ridgway, Héctor Lavoe, Godfrey Chitalu, Marian Anderson, and Monte Melkonian.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ishirō Honda ranks 596 out of 6,245. Before him are Hakuin Ekaku (1686), Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (1920), Taro Kagawa (1922), Akira Nishino (1955), Sawao Kato (1946), and Hiroshi Saeki (1936). After him are Gunichi Mikawa (1888), Seki Matsunaga (1928), Atsushi Nakajima (1909), Kōzō Okamoto (1947), Hiroshi Ōshima (1886), and Chōjun Miyagi (1888).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Ishirō Honda ranks 18. Before him are Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Makoto Shinkai (1973), Mamoru Oshii (1951), Satoshi Kon (1963), Mikio Naruse (1905), and Kinji Fukasaku (1930). After him are Kaneto Shindo (1912), Kon Ichikawa (1915), Takashi Miike (1960), Yoshiyuki Tomino (1941), Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927), and Hiroshi Inagaki (1905).

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