Question: Are director of film Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958 Film) and director of film Tokyo Pop from the same country?

Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> In real life, Tadokoro was the frontman of the 80's rock group Red Warriors, who also star in the film as themselves. Other notable actors include Gina Belafonte and Tetsuro Tamba. Popular Japanese metal band X Japan also make a brief cameo appearance, though they were not credited. Directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui, the film stars Carrie Hamilton as Wendy Reed and Yutaka Tadokoro( also known as Diamond Yukai) as Hiro Yamaguchi. <SEP> She received her master's degree from New York University and was a script supervisor for a decade, prior to her first film, 1988's" Tokyo Pop", which she co-wrote and directed. The movie was shown at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and received critical acclaim for its depiction of an American woman trying to make sense of the Japanese youth culture. However, she's best known as the director of the 1992 film" Buffy the Vampire Slayer", whose original screenplay was the basis for the television series of the same name. Fran Rubel Kuzui is an American film director and producer. She discovered the screenplay of writer Joss Whedon, expanded the Buffy character with him, and together with producer Kaz Kuzui put together the financing to produce the picture. Kuzui served as an executive producer on the TV series and its spin- off" Angel", having packaged" Buffy" along with Kaz Kuzui, Sandollar TV's Gail Berman and Sandy Gallin. Along with husband Kaz Kuzui, she founded Kuzui Enterprises, a leader in independent film distribution in Japan that distributes U.S. films there and imports Japanese films for the U.S. market. In 2003, the Kuzuis were among the executive producers for the Thai- Japanese film" Last Life in the Universe". In 1997, Kuzui began working with Trey Parker and Matt Stone and produced their film" Orgazmo". The Kuzuis also localized and distributed the duo's TV series" South Park" in Japan. Kuzui Enterprises was among the financiers for" Orgazmo" and" Telling Lies in America". The Kuzuis worked with artist Keith Haring to establish Pop Shop Tokyo, an art project recognized by museums around the world. In 2018, it was reported that the Kuzuis are involved with the development of a reboot of" Buffy". Kuzui is a contributing writer at the Nikkei Asian Review and Tokyo bureau chief for Culinary Backstreets. <SEP> Nominated for eight Oscars in his career, he was best known for" Blackboard Jungle"( 1955)," Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"( 1958)," Elmer Gantry"( 1960; for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay)," In Cold Blood"( 1967) and" Looking for Mr. Goodbar"( 1977). Richard Brooks( May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992) was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and film producer. <SEP> It is based on the Pulitzer Prize- winning play of the same name by Tennessee Williams and adapted by Richard Brooks and James Poe. One of the top- ten box office hits of 1958, the film stars Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, and Burl Ives. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a 1958 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks. <SEP> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.