Question: Do both films, A New Leaf (film) and Killer: Dead or Alive, have the directors who are from the same country?

She made her initial impact in the 1950s from her improvisational comedy routines with Mike Nichols, performing as Nichols and May. After her duo with Nichols ended, May subsequently developed a career as a director and screenwriter. Her screenwriting has been twice nominated for the Academy Award, for "Heaven Can Wait" (1978) and "Primary Colors" (1998) which was directed by Nichols. May is celebrated for the string of films she directed in the 1970s: her 1971 black comedy "A New Leaf", in which she also starred; her 1972 dark romantic comedy "The Heartbreak Kid"; and her 1976 gritty drama "Mikey and Nicky", starring John Cassavetes and Peter Falk. In 1996, she reunited with Nichols to write the screenplay for "The Birdcage", directed by Nichols. After studying acting with theater coach Maria Ouspenskaya in Los Angeles, she moved to Chicago in 1955 and became a founding member of the Compass Players, an improvisational theater group. May began working alongside Nichols, who was also in the group, and together they began writing and performing their own comedy sketches, which were enormously popular. In 1957 they both quit the group to form their own stage act, Nichols and May, in New York. Jack Rollins, who produced most of Woody Allen's films, said their act was "so startling, so new, as fresh as could be. I was stunned by how really good they were." They performed nightly to mostly sold-out shows, in addition to making TV appearances and radio broadcasts. In their comedy act, they created satirical clichés and character types which made fun of the new intellectual, cultural, and social order that was just emerging at the time. In doing so, she was instrumental in removing the stereotype of women being unable to succeed at live comedy. Together, they became an inspiration to many younger comedians, including Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin. Elaine Iva May (née Berlin; born April 21, 1932) is an American comedienne, screenwriter, director and actress. After four years, at the height of their fame, they decided to discontinue their act. May became a screenwriter and playwright, along with acting and directing. Their relatively brief time together as comedy stars led New York talk show host Dick Cavett to call their act "one of the comic meteors in the sky." Gerald Nachman noted that "Nichols and May are perhaps the most ardently missed of all the satirical comedians of their era." <SEP> This film stars Scott Shaw and Kevin Thompson as" Michael Black" and" Raphael X". Killer: Dead or Alive is a 2006 thriller film that was directed by Scott Shaw. This film begins in the jungle where the two lead characters are sent to rescue a girl who is being stalked by a monster. Once she has been rescued the three return to civilization and enter the world of professional Hitmen. Similar to virtually all Scott Shaw films, this feature is made up of bizarre story twists and is filmed with a backdrop of several spectacular locations. This, combined with the use of unexpected editing techniques, causes the film to be presented in a very visual manner. This feature was filmed in Hollywood, California and Hong Kong. <SEP> Better known for her collaboration as a stage comedian with" The Graduate" director Mike Nichols, May also wrote and directed( in her debut). A New Leaf is a 1971 black comedy film based on the short story" The Green Heart" by Jack Ritchie, starring Elaine May, Walter Matthau, Jack Weston, George Rose, James Coco, and Doris Roberts. For this film May consulted Dr. Dominick Basile, a botany professor at Columbia University. Dr. Basile wrote botanically accurate lines into the script and supplied the botanical equipment seen in the film. May also modeled Henrietta's office after his. The film was a critical success upon its initial release. However, despite several accolades, award nominations, and a Radio City Music Hall run," A New Leaf" fared poorly at the box office and remains little known by the general public. It is now considered a cult classic. In 2019, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". <SEP> Dead or Alive: Final is a 2002 Japanese cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Takashi Miike. It is the third in a three- part series, preceded by" Dead or Alive" in 1999 and in 2000. The films are not connected in any apparent way except by director Takashi Miike and stars Riki Takeuchi and Show Aikawa. Besides Japanese, much of the dialog in the film is in Cantonese and some is in English. Often two people will talk to each other using different languages. <SEP> Scott Shaw( born September 23, 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author, martial artist, and filmmaker. <SEP> DOA: Dead or Alive is a 2006 British- German- American martial arts action film loosely based on the Tecmo/ Team Ninja fighting game series" Dead or Alive". Directed by Corey Yuen and written by J. F. Lawton and Adam and Seth Gross, it features an ensemble cast led by Jaime Pressly, Holly Valance, Sarah Carter, Natassia Malthe and Devon Aoki. In the film, fighters are invited to DOA" Dead or Alive", an invitational martial arts contest. The four female fighters begin as rivals, but work together to uncover the secret that the organizer of the tournament is trying to hide. The film has various appearances from characters of the game series, with, in lead roles, Kasumi( Aoki), Christie Allen( Valance) and Tina Armstrong( Pressly). The film received generally negative reviews. The film was released September 7, 2006 and performed poorly at the international box office. The US release was delayed and was eventually released June 15, 2007, in 505 theaters, for only 21 days.