Hwang Dong Hyuk

Historically, the landscape of successful Asians behind the camera has been sparse. Among the few who peopled this landscape, however, there have been standouts – famously, Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, who helmed over thirty films in his career during the mid-1900s, and is often cited as the inspiration for the work of Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and George Lucas.