Question: Are director of film Women (1985 film) and director of film Impossible Object both from the same country?

Like Kwan's following films," Women" focuses on female characters and their efforts to overcome cultural restrictions. Women is a 1985 Hong Kong drama film directed by Stanley Kwan in his directorial debut. The cast includes Cora Miao, Chow Yun- fat, Cherie Chung and Elaine Jin. It was nominated for nine Hong Kong Film Awards including Best Picture. <SEP> Stanley Kwan( born October 9, 1957) is a Hong Kong film director and producer. Kwan landed a job at the TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist College. Kwan's first film was" Women"( 1985), which starred Chow Yun-fat, and was a big box- office success. Kwan came out as a gay man in 1996 in" Yang ± Yin", his documentary looking at the history of Chinese- language film through the prism of gender roles and sexuality. Kwan's films often deal sympathetically with the plight of women and their struggles with romantic affairs of the heart. " Rouge"( 1987)," Full Moon in New York"( 1989)," Center Stage"( 1992; a.k.a." Actress"), a biopic on silent film star Ruan Lingyu and" Everlasting Regret"( 2005), are all such typical Kwan films. " Red Rose White Rose"( 1994) is an adaptation of an Eileen Chang novel. The film was entered into the 45th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1998 film" Hold You Tight" won the Alfred Bauer Prize and Teddy Award at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. He is one of the few openly gay directors in Asia and one of the very few to have worked on these themes. His" Lan Yu"( 2001) adapts a gay love story originally published on the Internet. <SEP> John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were "Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962), "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), "Seven Days in May" (1964), "The Train" (1965), "Seconds" (1966), "Grand Prix" (1966), "French Connection II" (1975), "Black Sunday" (1977), and "Ronin" (1998). He won four Emmy Awards—three consecutive—in the 1990s for directing the television movies "Against the WallThe Burning SeasonAndersonville", and "George Wallace", the last of which also received a Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film. Frankenheimer's 30 feature films and over 50 plays for television were notable for their influence on contemporary thought. He became a pioneer of the "modern-day political thriller", having begun his career at the peak of the Cold War. He was technically highly accomplished from his days in live television; many of his films were noted for creating "psychological dilemmas" for his male protagonists along with having a strong "sense of environment," similar in style to films by director Sidney Lumet, for whom he had earlier worked as assistant director. He developed a "tremendous propensity for exploring political situations" which would ensnare his characters. Movie critic Leonard Maltin writes that "in his time [1960s]... Frankenheimer worked with the top writers, producers and actors in a series of films that dealt with issues that were just on top of the moment—things that were facing us all." <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. <SEP> Impossible Object, later released as Story of a Love Story, is a 1973 drama film starring Alan Bates and Dominique Sanda. It was screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition. Mosley wrote the screenplay at the behest of director Joseph Losey, whose film" Accident" was based on an earlier Mosley novel. Dirk Bogarde and Catherine Deneuve had been attached to the film. It was directed by John Frankenheimer with a screenplay by Nicholas Mosley based on his own novel. However, Losey had difficulty financing the film and later fell out with Mosley over" The Assassination of Trotsky." Frankenheimer, looking to make an independent film, took over the project.