Question: Do both films: I'll Do Anything and English, August (film) have the directors from the same country?

Happy Times is a 2000 tragicomedy film directed by Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, starring Zhao Benshan and Dong Jie. It is based loosely on the short story," Shifu: You'll Do Anything for a Laugh"( 师傅越来越幽默) by Mo Yan; the story appears in English translation in the collection of the same title translated by Howard Goldblatt. Though the story and the film share a common opening, they begin to diverge almost immediately. <SEP> While growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing. After dropping out of New York University, he got a job as an usher at CBS, going on to write for the CBS News broadcasts. He moved to Los Angeles in 1965 to work on David L. Wolper's documentaries. After being laid off he met producer Allan Burns who secured him a job as a writer on the series" My Mother the Car". Brooks wrote for several shows before being hired as a story editor on" My Friend Tony" and later created the series" Room 222". Grant Tinker hired Brooks and Burns at MTM Productions to create" The Mary Tyler Moore Show" in 1970. The show, one of the first to feature an independent working woman as its lead character, was critically acclaimed and won Brooks several Primetime Emmy Awards. Brooks and Burns then created two successful spin- offs from" Mary Tyler MooreRhoda"( a comedy) and" Lou Grant"( a drama). Brooks left MTM Productions in 1978 to co-create the sitcom" Taxi" which, despite winning multiple Emmys, suffered from low ratings and was canceled twice. James Lawrence Brooks( born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer and screenwriter, who helped create a string of acclaimed productions in television and the movies, including" The Mary Tyler Moore Show The Simpsons Broadcast News", and" Terms of Endearment". Brooks moved into feature film work when he wrote and co-produced the 1979 film" Starting Over". His next project was the critically acclaimed film" Terms of Endearment", which he produced, directed and wrote, winning an Academy Award for all three roles. Basing his next film," Broadcast News", on his journalistic experiences, the film earned him a further two Academy Award nominations. Although his 1994 work" I'll Do Anything" was hampered by negative press attention due to the cutting of all of its recorded musical numbers," As Good as It Gets"( co- written with Mark Andrus) earned further praise. It was seven years until his next film, 2004's" Spanglish". His sixth film," How Do You Know", was released in 2010. Brooks also produced and mentored Cameron Crowe on" Say Anything ..."( 1989) and Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson on" Bottle Rocket"( 1996). In 1984, Brooks founded the television and film company, Gracie Films. Although he did not intend to do so, Brooks returned to television in 1987 as the producer of" The Tracey Ullman Show". He hired cartoonist Matt Groening to create a series of shorts for the show, which eventually led to" The Simpsons" in 1989. " The Simpsons" won numerous awards and is still running. Brooks also co-produced and co-wrote the 2007 film adaptation of the show," The Simpsons Movie". In total, Brooks has received 53 Emmy nominations, winning 21 of them. <SEP> Jack Shea (August 1, 1928 – April 28, 2013) was an American film and television director. He was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1997 to 2002. <SEP> Dev Benegal is a New York based Indian filmmaker and screenwriter, most known for his debut film" English, August"( 1994), which won the 1995 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English. <SEP> A humorous and irreverent study of bureaucracy and the Indian Generation X," English, August" won several awards at international film festivals. English, August, made in 1994, is an Indian film and director Dev Benegal's first feature film. " English, August" became the first Indian independent film to break the stranglehold of mainstream Indian Bollywood cinema when it was acquired by 20th Century Fox and became a theatrical success in the country. This has led the way for other low budget, independent movies such as" Bombay Boys" and" Split Wide Open", which are part of the next generation of" middle cinema". The film is based on the novel of the same name by Upamanyu Chatterjee. The negatives of the film were lost due to flooding at a storage facility of Prasad Studios. The was an attempt restoration, but it was n't successful. The film is now lost forever. <SEP> While a large part of the film is a satire of the film industry, it also skewers relationships from various angles. I'll Do Anything is a 1994 American satirical comedy- drama film written and directed by James L. Brooks. Its primary plot concerns a down- on- his- luck actor who suddenly finds himself the sole caretaker of his six- year- old daughter.