Joe Butterfly
Joe Butterfly is a 1957 American comedy film directed by Jesse Hibbs starring Audie Murphy, George Nader and Keenan Wynn, with Burgess Meredith in the title role as a Japanese man.
The movie was action star Murphy's only outright comedy, and it suffered by comparison to the similar" Teahouse of the August Moon", released seven months earlier.
The film was based on an unproduced play.
Don't Go Near the Water (film)
Do n't Go Near the Water is a 1957 comedy film about a U.S. Navy public relations unit stationed on an island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
It is an adaptation of the 1956 novel of the same name by William Brinkley.
Glenn Ford and Gia Scala star.
This is the first of several service comedies that Ford appeared in after the huge success of" Teahouse of the August Moon".
The movie was very successful and further solidified Ford's reputation as an adept comedic actor.
Run Wild, Run Free
Run Wild, Run Free is a 1969 British drama film directed by Richard C. Sarafian and starring John Mills and Mark Lester.
The film was written by David Rook, based on his novel" The White Colt", and shot on location in Dartmoor, Devon, England.
Richard C. Sarafian
Richard Caspar Sarafian( April 28, 1930 – September 18, 2013) was an American television and film director and actor.
He compiled a versatile career that spanned over five decades as a director, actor, and writer.
Sarafian is best known as the director of the 1971 film" Vanishing Point".
Franklin Underwood
Franklin Underwood, also known as Frank Underwood during the 1960s, is an American songwriter and jazz pianist.
Underwood lives in Manhattan.
His show" Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen", a musical based on" The Teahouse of the August Moon" with Stan Freeman opened on Broadway in 1970.
His credits include songs for Rod Warren's 1964 Chicago revue" The Game Is Up", and" I Wish I'd Met You" sung by Lena Horne and Sammy Davis, Jr. with music by Johnny Mandel and lyrics by Richard Rodney Bennett and Frank Underwood.
Other songs include" Real Men Do n't Eat Quiche".
Zacari
Zacari Pacaldo( born April 8, 1996), known mononymously as Zacari, is an American singer and songwriter from Bakersfield, California.
He is signed to Top Dawg Entertainment and released his EP" Run Wild Run Free" on March 15, 2019.
The Teahouse of the August Moon (film)
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Daniel Mann and starring Marlon Brando.
It satirizes the U.S. occupation and Americanization of the island of Okinawa following the end of World War II in 1945.
John Patrick adapted the screenplay from his own Pulitzer- Prize- and Tony- Award- winning Broadway play of 1953.
The play was, in turn, adapted from a 1951 novel by Vern J. Sneider.
The film was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.
Daniel Mann
Daniel Chugerman( August 8, 1912 – November 21, 1991), better known as Daniel Mann, was an American film and television director.
Vern Sneider
Vernon J. Sneider( 6 October 1916 – 1 May 1981) was an American novelist perhaps most noted for his 1951 novel" The Teahouse of the August Moon", which was later adapted by John Patrick for a Broadway play in 1953, a motion picture in 1956, and the Broadway musical" Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" in 1970.
The play" The Teahouse of the August Moon" won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1954.
His novel" A Pail of Oysters", about life during the White Terror by Chinese Nationalists regime in Taiwan, was reissued by Camphor Press on February 28, 2016, the 69th anniversary of the 1947 2-28 Incident.
He was born and died in Monroe, Michigan.
He was the son of Fred Sneider and Matilda D. Althover Sneider.
After graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 1940, he entered the Army.
He was a member of a military government team that landed in Okinawa in April 1945.
There he became commander of Tobaru, a village of 5,000 people that became Tobiki Village in" The Teahouse".
He was married first to Barbara Lee Cook( 1925 – 1968).
Michael Gallagher (translator)
Michael Gallagher( born 1930) is an author and translator of Japanese literature.
His translation of Yukio Mishima's" Spring Snow" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1973, while his nonfiction work" Laws of Heaven" was the winner of the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Award in Theology.
As a Jesuit scholastic, he spent three years teaching English at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he directed several plays, including" The Teahouse of the August Moon".
He left the Jesuit order and served briefly as a paratrooper in Korea.

Question: Are the directors of films Run Wild, Run Free and The Teahouse Of The August Moon (Film) both from the same country?
Answer: yes