Clifton Ko
Clifton Ko( born 1958) is a Hong Kong film director, actor, producer and scriptwriter.
He graduated from Kwun Tong Maryknoll College, and entered TV and film industry in late 1970s, firstly worked with director Clifford Choi.
In this period he wrote Choi's" No U- Turn"( 1981) and" Teenage Dreamers", and John Woo's comedy" Once a Thief".
In 1982 Ko entered Raymond Wong's the newly founded Cinema City& Films Co., and directed his first film" The Happy Ghost" in 1984.
The film series, like all his major works, is a slapstick comedy with moral teaching, family value, and optimism.
Ko, together the company, is prolific in making" Chinese New Year movies".
Important titles include family comedy series" It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World"( beginning in 1987);" Chicken and Duck Talk", a collaboration with comedian/ writer Michael Hui; and ensemble comedy series" All's Well, Ends Well"( beginning in 1992); and" It's a Wonderful Life"( 1994)( Stokes).
Happy Ghost II
Happy Ghost II is a 1985 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Clifton Ko. Produced and written by Raymond Wong, the film stars Wong, Fennie Yuan, May Lo, Charine Chan and Gigi Fu. This film is the sequel to Happy Ghost.
Although the film grossed less than its prequel, it was the 10th most grossing film in Hong Kong that year.
The film is about Happy Ghost/ Scholar Stewart Pik( Raymond Wong Pak-ming) gets reincarnated and is now a high school teacher called Hong Sam Kwai, born with natural superpowers but does n't know how to use them.
He is assigned to teach a class full of naughty students who likes to play pranks.
He becomes a victim of his students, but with the help of a school worker( Kee- Chan Tang), he knows how to avoid the pranks.
Some boys from a boy school nearby falls in love with Kwai's students and Kwai falls in love with the boys's class teacher.
Happy Ghost IV
Happy Ghost IV is a 1990 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Clifton Ko.
The film stars Raymond Wong and May Lo.
Happy Ghost V
Happy Ghost V is a 1991 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Clifton Ko.
The film stars Raymond Wong and Filipina actress Kris Aquino
Lee Eun
Lee Eun( born July 10, 1961) is a director and producer of films in South Korea.
Ghost from the Machine
Ghost from the Machine is a 2010 independent supernatural thriller written and directed by Matt Osterman.
It was filmed in and around Minneapolis, Minnesota, and made its festival debut at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal, Canada.
" Ghost from the Machine" was also an official Independent Feature Project Labs participant.
" Ghost from the Machine" was originally titled, and is known internationally as," Phasma Ex Machina."
Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger( 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an American theatre and film director, originally from Austria- Hungary.
He directed more than 35 feature films in a five- decade career after leaving the theatre.
He first gained attention for film noir mysteries such as" Laura"( 1944) and" Fallen Angel"( 1945), while in the 1950s and 1960s, he directed a number of high- profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works.
Several of these later films pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with topics which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction(" The Man with the Golden Arm", 1955), rape(" Anatomy of a Murder", 1959) and homosexuality(" Advise& Consent", 1962).
He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.
He also had a few acting roles.
Happy Ghost III
Happy Ghost III is a 1986 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Johnnie To. Produced and written by Raymond Wong, the film stars Wong and Maggie Cheung.
This is the third installment in the" Happy Ghost" series, the film far more frenetically paced than the first two and it s much more a film for adults.
The film is about a spirit of the late female singer Tsui Pan Han( Maggie Cheung) waits in the afterlife for a chance to be reincarnated.
She meets the Godfather( Tsui Hark) who has found an appropriate musical family for her to be reincarnated with.
Her opportunity to be born into the new family is ruined when Sam Kwai( Raymond Wong) takes the pregnant wife to the wrong hospital.
Pan Han is given one month to find a new body to assume her reincarnation in, and decides in the meantime to harass Sam Kwai.
Kwai eventually summons the Happy Ghost to help him out.
In the Meantime, Darling
In the Meantime, Darling is a 1944 American drama film produced and directed by Otto Preminger.
The screenplay by Arthur Kober and Michael Uris focuses on a wealthy war bride( Jeanne Crain) who is forced to adjust to living in spartan conditions in military housing during World War II.
Happy Ghost
Happy Ghost( also known as The Happy Ghost) is a 1984 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Clifton Ko. Produced and written by Raymond Wong, the film stars Wong, Boonie Law, Loletta Lee and Sandy Lamb.
The film was the 12th most grossed films in Hong Kong of 1984.
The film is about three high school students, Bonnie( Bonnie Law), Juilet( Rachel Lee( actress)) and Venus( Sandy Lamb), in their last year in school together, go on their last picnic before their examinations.
Taking shelter from a sudden storm in an abandoned temple, Bonnie finds a piece of rope and takes it home.
With this rope she brings home a spirit of Scholar Pik( Raymond Wong Pak-ming), whose archaic ways of thinking obviously clashed with the values held by a twentieth century teenager.
Yet, they began to make friends with each other.
The three girls started to depend on Scholar Pik's magic for everything.
After their exam, they realize it, the girls begin to derive a more positive and hardworking attitude towards life through his encouragement.

Question: Are both directors of films In The Meantime, Darling and Happy Ghost from the same country?
Answer: no