Odette Joyeux
Odette Joyeux
( 5 December 1914 – 26 August 2000) was a French actress, playwright and novelist.
She was born in Paris, where she studied dance at the Paris Opera Ballet before taking the stage.
Joyeux started her film career in 1931.
Her first notable film was Marc Allégret's" Entrée des artistes"( 1938).
During the 1940s she established herself as one of France's most popular cinema actresses but made few film appearances after the 1950s.
Joyeux is the author of some plays and essays on dance as well as inventor" Nicéphore Niépce".
She also wrote two novels aimed to inspire dance:" L' Âge heureux"( which was adapted to a television series) and" Côté jardin".
Additionally, Joyeux wrote" The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful"( 1956)( adapted to film).
She married actor Pierre Brasseur from 1935 until their divorce in 1945, by whom she had one child, Claude Brasseur, who is the father of Alexandre Brasseur.
In 1958 she married director Philippe Agostini.
They remained married until her death in Grimaud, Var, Provence- Alpes- Côte d' Azur, France from stroke at age 85.
The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful
The Bride is
Much Too Beautiful is a 1956 French comedy film directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit.
It was also known as "Her Bridal Night" and "La mariée est trop belle".
John Woo
John Woo SBS (born 1 May 1946) is a Hong Kong film director, producer and screenwriter.
He is considered a major influence on the action genre, known for his highly chaotic action sequences, stylized imagery, Mexican standoffs, frequent use of slow motion and allusions to neo-noir, "wuxia" and Western cinema.
Considered one of the major figures of Hong Kong cinema, Woo has directed several notable action films in his adopted home, among them, "A Better Tomorrow" (1986), "The Killer" (1989), "Hard Boiled" (1992), and "Red Cliff" (2008/2009).
Woo's Hollywood films include the action films "Hard Target" (1993) and "Broken Arrow" (1996), the sci-fi action thriller "Face/Off" (1997) and the action spy film  (2000).
He also created the comic series "Seven Brothers", published by Virgin Comics.
He cites his three favorite films as David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia", Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" and Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samouraï".
He is the founder and chairman of the production company Lion Rock Productions.
La sposa
La sposa( Italian for" The bride") is a 1958 Italian melodrama film directed by Edmondo Lozzi.
Hard Target 2
Hard Target 2 is a 2016 American action film directed by Roel Reiné.
It is a direct-to-video sequel of the 1993 American action film "Hard Target" and stars Scott Adkins, Robert Knepper, Ann Truong, Rhona Mitra, and Temuera Morrison.
It continues the human hunt theme in the jungles of Myanmar and Thailand.
It is available on DVD, Blu-Ray and Digital HD.
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Pierre Gaspard-Huit (29 November 1917 – 1 May 2017) was a French film director and screenwriter.
He directed the 1963 film "Shéhérazade", which starred Anna Karina.
He was once married to actress Claudine Auger when she was 18, and he was 41 years old.
She acted in several of his films.
Christine Gouze-Rénal
Christine Gouze- Rénal( 30 December 1914 − 25 October 2002) was a French film and television producer.
A graduate in literature and art history and former Résistance member, she became in 1956 France's first female film producer with" The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful", starring Brigitte Bardot.
She produced a total of about 15 movies, the most celebrated being probably Jacques Demy's" Une chambre en ville"( 1983).
From the 1970s onwards, she was also active as a television producer, with adaptations of works by Colette, Maupassant, Balzac and Buzzati.
In 1985, she was awarded an honorary César for lifetime achievement.
Gouze- Rénal was the wife of actor Roger Hanin and the elder sister of Danielle Mitterrand, wife of President François Mitterrand.
Hard Target
Hard Target is a 1993 American action film directed by Hong Kong film director John Woo in his American debut.
The film stars Jean-Claude van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, an out-of-work Cajun merchant seaman who saves a young woman, named Natasha Binder (Yancy Butler), from a gang of thugs in New Orleans.
Chance learns that Binder is searching for her missing father (Chuck Pfarrer), and agrees to aid Binder in her search.
Boudreaux and Binder soon learn that Binder's father has died at the hands of hunt organisers, Emil Fouchon (Lance Henriksen) and Pik van Cleef (Arnold Vosloo), ruthless businessmen who arrange the hunting of homeless men as a form of recreational sport.
The screenplay was written by Chuck Pfarrer and is based on the 1932 film adaptation of Richard Connell's 1924 short story "The Most Dangerous Game".
"Hard Target" was Woo's first American film and was also the first major Hollywood film made by a Chinese director.
Universal Pictures was nervous about having Woo direct a feature, and sent in director Sam Raimi to look over the film's production and to take Woo's place as director if he were to fail.
Woo went through several scripts finding mostly martial arts films with which he was not interested.
After deciding on Chuck Pfarrer's script for "Hard Target", Woo wanted to have actor Kurt Russell in the lead role, but found Russell too busy with other projects.
Woo then went with Universal's initial choice of having Jean-Claude van Damme star.
Woo got along with Van Damme during filming and raised the amount of action in the film as he knew that Van Damme was up for it.
After 65 days of filming in New Orleans, Woo had trouble with the Motion Picture Association of America to secure the R rating that Universal wanted.
Woo made dozens of cuts to the film until the MPAA allowed it an R rating.
On its initial release, "Hard Target" received mixed reviews from film critics but was a financial success.
The film is considered a cult film among fans especially for the action scenes.
The Tsar's Bride (film)
The Tsar's Bride is a 1965 Soviet drama film directed by.
Here Comes the Bride (1919 film)
Here Comes the Bride is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film produced by Famous Players- Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures.
This film is based on the 1917 Broadway play" Here Comes the Bride" by Max Marcin and Roy Atwell.
The film was directed by John S. Robertson and stars John Barrymore.

Question: Do both films Hard Target and The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful have the directors that share the same nationality?
Answer: no