Question: Do director of film Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai and director of film Pilgrimage (2001 Film) have the same nationality?

Herzog is a figure of the New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature. Werner Herzog made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Werner Herzog( born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature- and documentary films, such as" Aguirre, the Wrath of God"( 1972)," Nosferatu the Vampyre"( 1978)," Fitzcarraldo"( 1982)," Lessons of Darkness"( 1992)," Little Dieter Needs to Fly"( 1997)," My Best Fiend"( 1999)," Invincible"( 2000)," Grizzly Man"( 2005)," Encounters at the End of the World"( 2007),( 2009), and" Cave of Forgotten Dreams"( 2010). He has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog" the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog" has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by" Time" magazine in 2009. <SEP> Accompanied only by music the film alternates between shots of pilgrims near the tomb of Saint Sergei in Sergiyev Posad, Russia and pilgrims at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico. Pilgrimage is a 2001 documentary film by Werner Herzog. The score was composed by John Tavener and performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with vocal accompaniment by Parvin Cox and the Westminster Cathedral Choir. The film begins with a supposed quote by Thomas à Kempis, invented by Herzog. <SEP> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing films as" Stranger Than Paradise"( 1984)," Down by Law"( 1986)," Mystery Train"( 1989)," Dead Man"( 1995),( 1999)," Coffee and Cigarettes"( 2003)," Broken Flowers"( 2005)," Only Lovers Left Alive"( 2013), and" Paterson"( 2016). " Stranger Than Paradise" was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002. James Robert Jarmusch( born January 22, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor, and composer. As a musician, Jarmusch has composed music for his films and released two albums with Jozef van Wissem. <SEP> Ghost Dog: Forest Whitaker stars as the title character, the mysterious "Ghost Dog", a hitman in the employ of the Mafia, who follows the ancient code of the samurai as outlined in the book of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's recorded sayings, "Hagakure". Critics have noted similarities between the movie and Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 film "Le Samouraï". The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 crime film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. The film opened to largely positive critical reception, and was nominated for both an Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature and a César Award for Best Foreign Film.