Question: A teen comedy starring "TV's most beautiful woman" was directed by what man?

Context articles: Harionago
Anything Goes (1936 film)
The Girl Next Door (2004 film)
Yakshi (novel)
Elisha Cuthbert
The Criminal (1999 film)
Lord Love a Duck
Goodnight for Justice: Queen of Hearts
La Chamade (film)
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy

Harionago (Japanese: 針女子 ), also known as Harionna (Japanese: 針女 ), is a ""frightening female ghoul"" in Japanese mythology.
 Her name literally meaning ""Barbed woman"" the Harionago is said to be a ""beautiful woman with extremely long hair tipped with thorn-like barbs,"" Her hair is under her ""direct control, and she uses it to ensnare men.""
 She is said to wander the roads of the Japanese prefecture of Ehime on the island of Shikoku.
 When she finds a ""young man, she will laugh at him, and if the young man dares to laugh back, Harionago will drop her terrible, barbed hair and attack.""
Anything Goes is a 1936 American musical film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles and Ida Lupino.
 Based on the stage musical "Anything Goes" by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, the stage version contains songs by Cole Porter.
 The film is about a young man who falls in love with a beautiful woman whom he follows onto a luxury liner, where he discovers she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England.
 He also discovers that his boss is on the ship.
 To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.
 The film required revisions of Porter's saucy lyrics to pass Production Code censors.
 Only four of his songs remained: "Anything Goes", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "There'll Always Be a Lady Fair", and "You're the Top".
 "You're the Top" contained substantially revised lyrics, and only the first verse (sung by Ethel Merman during the opening credits) was retained from the song "Anything Goes".
The Girl Next Door is a 2004 American romantic comedy film about a high school senior who falls in love for the first time with the girl next door, but finds the situation becoming complicated after he learns that she is a former pornographic actress.
 It stars Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar, Chris Marquette and Paul Dano and is directed by Luke Greenfield.
Yakshi is a Malayalam novel written by Malayattoor Ramakrishnan in 1967.
 This novel is about a college lecturer, Srinivasan, who is disfigured in an accident in his college lab.
 He meets a beautiful woman who is willing to accept him despite his disfigurement.
 But after a while, Srinivasan has doubts about the identity of this woman; he doubts that this woman is human.
 The novel was adapted into a film with same name starring Sathyan in 1968.
 In 1993, "Yakshi" was shown in BBC's "Off the Shelf" program as 12 episodes.
 In 1995, Hemamalini directed a telefilm in Hindi for Zee TV titled "Mohini" with Sudesh Berry and Madhoo.
 In 2013, a contemporary retelling of the novel titled "Akam" was released.
Elisha Ann Cuthbert (born November 30, 1982) is a Canadian actress and model.
 She became known for playing Kim Bauer in the series "24", Darcie Goldberg in the college comedy "Old School", Danielle in the teen comedy film "The Girl Next Door", and Carly Jones in the 2005 remake of "House of Wax".
 In 2013, "Maxim" magazine named her "TV's most beautiful woman".
The Criminal is a 1999 British thriller film directed by Julian Simpson and starring Steven Mackintosh, Eddie Izzard and Natasha Little.
 After meeting a beautiful woman in a bar, a man's life is plunged into chaos.
Lord Love a Duck is a 1966 teen comedy starring Roddy McDowall and Tuesday Weld.
 The film was a satire of popular culture at the time, its targets ranging from progressive education to beach party films.
 It is based on Al Hine's 1961 novel of the same name.
Goodnight for Justice: Queen of Hearts is a 2013 television film directed by Martin Wood and starring Luke Perry, Katharine Isabelle, and Ricky Schroder.
 Written by Neal and Tippi Dobrofsky, based on characters created by Luke Perry, the film is about a circuit judge who rescues a beautiful woman from a vengeful colonel.
 Unaware that the woman is a con artist, the judge helps her escape her pursuer, and their journey together takes them to a gambling riverboat, where the judge discovers her true identity, just as the colonel catches up with them.
 "Goodnight for Justice: Queen of Hearts" is the third film in a series, preceded by "Goodnight for Justice" (2011) and "Goodnight for Justice: The Measure of a Man" (2012).
La Chamade (English: "Heartbeat" ) is a 1968 French romantic drama film written and directed by Alain Cavalier and starring Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, and Roger Van Hool.
 Based on the 1965 novel "La Chamade" by Françoise Sagan, the film is about a beautiful woman who is mistress to a rich, good-hearted businessman who provides for all her material needs, but for whom she has no true love.
 When she meets a charming young man her own age, Antoine, she falls in love.
 He finds her a menial job in a publisher's, but she can't or won't hold it down.
 Soon she becomes pregnant with his child.
 But Charles helps her through her crisis by funding her abortion (against the wishes of the father, Antoine, who nevertheless accepts,even though he planned on moving out of his charming bachelor flat, the three of them into a soulless concrete block, money being short.
 So she goes to Geneva where the nameplate on the door, indicating the abortion doctor, is V.I.O. Lenine.
 In the aftermath, her feelings for the younger Antoine fade.
 Eventually, she returns to the good-hearted businessman who has patiently waited for her.
 "La Chamade" was filmed on location in Paris and Nice.
 Seen again on Arte February 8, 2017.
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy is a 1974 black comedy starring Paul Sorvino as Harry Walters, a stout real estate salesman who is randomly picked up by a beautiful woman (JoAnna Cameron), then raped at gunpoint as a prank.
 He is later dropped off naked in a small town and left to explain to his wife, friends, and the police how he was both kidnapped and raped by a woman.
 The made-for-TV film was co-written and produced by Arne Sultan as an ABC Movie of the Week installment.