Lady from Chungking
Lady from Chungking is a 1942 American war film.
Lady from Nowhere
Lady from Nowhere is a 1936 American crime film directed by Gordon Wiles and starring Mary Astor, Charles Quigley and Thurston Hall.
Gordon Wiles
Gordon Wiles( October 10, 1904 – October 17, 1950) was an American art director and film director.
He won an Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film" Transatlantic".
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
His father, Albert Wiles, was a doctor in Jerseyville, Illinois.
Lu Yu
Lu Yu( 733–804) was a Chinese tea master and writer.
He is respected as the Sage of Tea for his contribution to Chinese tea culture.
He is best known for his monumental book" The Classic of Tea", the first definitive work on cultivating, making and drinking tea.
The Lady from Nowhere
The Lady from Nowhere is a 1931 American crime film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Alice Day, John Holland and Phillips Smalley.
Kei Kumai
He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for his first film," Nihon rettō", in 1965.
His 1972 film" Shinobu Kawa" was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival.
His 1974 film" Rise, Fair Sun" was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival.
Perhaps his best- known film is" Sandakan No. 8", which received widespread acclaim for tackling the issue of a woman forced into prostitution in Borneo before the outbreak of World War II.
Kinuyo Tanaka won the Best Actress Award at the 25th Berlin International Film Festival for her performance.
The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 48th Academy Awards.
Kumai's follow- up film was 1976's" Cape of North", starring French actress Claude Jade as a Swiss nun who falls in love with a Japanese engineer on a trip from Marseilles to Yokohama.
His 1986 film" The Sea and Poison" won the Silver Bear- Special Jury Prize at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.
In 1992, his film" Luminous Moss" was entered into the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.
Other works include" Ocean to CrossDeath of a Tea Master" starring Toshirō Mifune as Sen no Riky ū( Silver Lion at the 1989 Venice Film Festival) and the 2002 film" The Sea Is Watching", based on Akira Kurosawa's posthumous script.
" The Sea Is Watching" is the only Kei Kumai film to receive an official NTSC release by Sony( Columbia/ Tri- Star).
More of his films can be found in other region formats with optional English subtitles," The Sands of Kurobe"( 1968) being one example.
The Gentleman from Nowhere
The Gentleman from Nowhere is a 1948 American crime- drama film directed by William Castle.
Yamanoue Sōji
Yamanoue Sōji( 山上宗二; 1544–90) was a Japanese tea master.
Shimozuma Rairyū
Between the Honganji and Oda Nobunaga, Rairyū negotiated peace.
It is known that Rairyū was very fond of tea ceremonies.
Rairy ū invited a master of tea, Tsuda Sōtatsu over to join him in a ceremony of tea.
Death of a Tea Master
Death of a Tea Master(" Sen no Rikyu: Honkakub ô ibun" also known as" Sen no Rikyū: Honkakubo's Student Writings") is a 1989 Japanese biographical drama film directed by Kei Kumai.
It is based on real life events of Sen no Rikyū, particularly the events surrounding his ritual suicide.
It was entered into the main competition at the 43rd Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the Silver Lion.
The film has yet to see an NTSC home media release, but there are other formats with English subtitles.

Question: Are the directors of films Death Of A Tea Master and Lady From Nowhere both from the same country?
Answer: no