Samuel Fuller
Samuel Michael Fuller( August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low- budget, understated genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system.
Fuller wrote his first screenplay for" Hats Off" in 1936, and made his directorial debut with the Western" I Shot Jesse James"( 1949).
He would continue to direct several other Westerns and war thrillers throughout the 1950s.
Fuller shifted from Westerns and war thrillers in the 1960s with his low- budget thriller" Shock Corridor" in 1963, followed by the neo-noir" The Naked Kiss"( 1964).
He was inactive in filmmaking for most of the 1970s, before writing and directing the war epic" The Big Red One"( 1980), and the experimental" White Dog"( 1982), whose screenplay he co-wrote with Curtis Hanson.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Ferry Tales
Ferry Tales is a 2003 American short documentary film written, produced and directed by Katja Esson.
It follows the conversations of women in the powder room of the Staten Island Ferry during the morning commute from Staten Island to Manhattan.
It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
The Crimson Kimono
The Crimson Kimono is a 1959 film noir directed by Samuel Fuller.
The film stars James Shigeta, Glenn Corbett and Victoria Shaw.
It featured several ahead- of- its- time ideas about race and society's perception of race, a thematic and stylistic trademark of Fuller.
The film is essentially about two cops, friends and Korean War veterans, Detective Joe Kojaku( James Shigeta) and Detective Sgt. Charlie Bancroft( Glenn Corbett), who attempt to solve the murder of a local entertainer.
A love triangle soon develops between a key witness, Christine Downes( Victoria Shaw), and the two principal leads.
Katja Esson
Katja Esson is a German- American filmmaker based in Miami, Florida.
She was born and raised in Germany.
Her documentary" Ferry Tales" received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary( Short Subject) in 2004.
She is the only female German filmmaker ever nominated for a documentary at the Academy Awards.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Jason Moore (director)
Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and director of film, television and theatre.

Question: Are director of film Ferry Tales and director of film The Crimson Kimono from the same country?
Answer: yes