Question: Are Bong Joon-ho and Kenji Mizoguchi from the same country?

Context articles: Street of Shame
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
The Lady of Musashino
Princess Yang Kwei-Fei
Kenji Mizoguchi
Osaka Elegy
Sisters of the Gion
Utamaro and His Five Women
Tokyo March
Bong Joon-ho

Street of Shame (赤線地帯 , "Akasen chitai" ) is a 1956 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
 It is the personal tales of several Japanese women of different backgrounds who work together in a brothel.
 It was Mizoguchi's last film.
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (ある映画監督の生涯 溝口健二の記録 , Aru eiga-kantoku no shōgai ) is a 1975 Japanese documentary film on the life and works of director Kenji Mizoguchi, directed by Kaneto Shindo.
The Lady of Musashino (武蔵野夫人 , Musashino-Fujin ) is a 1951 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
 The script for the film was adapted by Mizoguchi from the best-selling serial novel by Shōhei Ōoka.
Princess Yang Kwei-Fei (楊貴妃 , "Yōkihi" , a.k.a. "The Consort Yáng Guìfēi") is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
 It was a co-production between Daiei Film and Hong Kong's Shaw & Sons, a predecessor of Shaw Brothers Studio .
 It is one of Mizoguchi's two color films, the other being "Tales of the Taira Clan", made the same year.
Kenji Mizoguchi (溝口 健二 , Mizoguchi Kenji , May 16, 1898 – August 24, 1956) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
Osaka Elegy (浪華悲歌 , "Naniwa erejii" ) (originally Naniwa Elegy) is a 1936 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
 Mizoguchi considered the film his first serious effort as a director, and it was also his first commercial and critical success in Japan.
 "Osaka Elegy" is often considered a companion piece to Mizoguchi's next film, "Sisters of the Gion", which was released the same year and featured much the same cast and crew.
Sisters of the Gion (祇園の姉妹 , Gion no kyōdai ) or Sisters of Gion is a 1936 black and white Japanese film drama directed by Kenji Mizoguchi about two sisters living in the Gion District.
 The film is seen as a companion piece to Mizoguchi's "Osaka Elegy" which shares much of the same cast and production team.
Utamaro and His Five Women or Five Women Around Utamaro (Japanese: 歌麿をめぐる五人の女 , Hepburn: Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna ) is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
 It is based on the novel of the same title by Kanji Kunieda, itself a fictionalized account of the life of printmaker Kitagawa Utamaro.
 It was Mizoguchi's first film made under the American occupation.
Tokyo March (東京行進曲 , Tōkyō kōshinkyoku ) is a 1929 black and white Japanese silent film, originally presented with benshi accompaniment, directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
 It is a classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in modern Japan, depicted in Mizoguchi's typical style.
 The theme song "Tokyo March" was originally sung by Chiyako Sato.
Bong Joon Ho (, ] ; born September 14, 1969) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.
 His films include South Korean hits "Memories of Murder" (2003), based on a true-life serial murder case, monster movie "The Host" (2006), and his first English-language film, science fiction adventure "Snowpiercer" (2013).
 His latest film is "Okja" (2017), a South Korean-American film, which competed for the "Palme d'Or" in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
 "Okja" was subsequently released by Netflix on June 28, 2017.