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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 680,696 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ishirō Honda is the 305th most popular film director (down from 301st in 2019), the 416th most popular biography from Japan (up from 447th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Film Director.

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  • 28

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ishirō Honda ranks 305 out of 1,581. Before him are Tsui Hark, Henry King, John Landis, Jim Henson, Gaspar Noé, and King Vidor. After him are Philippe de Broca, Mikio Naruse, Thomas Vinterberg, Frank Borzage, Satoshi Kon, and Sergiu Nicolaescu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Ishirō Honda ranks 75. Before him are Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Mahalia Jackson, Alfonso García Robles, Jussi Björling, Qian Xuesen, and Hubert Humphrey. After him are Elizabeth Bishop, Renée Simonot, William Stuart-Houston, Thanom Kittikachorn, Jean-Pierre Aumont, and David Ogilvy. Among people deceased in 1993, Ishirō Honda ranks 58. Before him are Kakuei Tanaka, Eddie Constantine, Helen Hayes, Bruno Pontecorvo, Matthew Ridgway, and Meliton Kantaria. After him are Rahmon Nabiyev, György Sárosi, Kenneth E. Boulding, Dražen Petrović, Tofiq Bahramov, and Hervé Villechaize.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ishirō Honda ranks 416 out of 6,048. Before him are Nagayasu Honda (null), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Enomoto Takeaki (1836), Takeo Kurita (1889), Konishi Yukinaga (1555), and Saburo Shinosaki (null). After him are Noboru Takeshita (1924), Yoshijirō Umezu (1882), Mōri Terumoto (1533), Hayato Ikeda (1899), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), and Masafumi Hara (1943).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Ishirō Honda ranks 12. Before him are Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Nagisa Oshima (1932), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), Shohei Imamura (1926), Hideaki Anno (1960), and Franklin J. Schaffner (1920). After him are Mikio Naruse (1905), Satoshi Kon (1963), Kinji Fukasaku (1930), Makoto Shinkai (1973), Mamoru Oshii (1951), and Kaneto Shindo (1912).

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Filmography

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