Question: Are the directors of both films Urumi (Film) and The Sweet And The Bitter (1967 Film) from the same country?

The Sweet and the Bitter, also known as Savage Justice, is a 1967 Canadian film directed by James Clavell. <SEP> It stars Prithviraj Sukumaran, Prabhu Deva, Genelia D' Souza, Amol Gupte, Jagathy Sreekumar, Nithya Menon, and Alexx O'Nell in lead roles and features Tabu, Arya and Vidya Balan in extended cameos. The film is set in the early 16th century, when Portuguese sailors dominated the Indian Ocean. The story follows Chirakkal Kelu( Prithviraj), seeking to avenge the death of his father at the hands of the sailors, and his cohorts Vavvali of Nagapattinam( Prabhu Deva), princess Ayesha of Arackel( Genelia D' Souza) and princess Bala of Chirakkal( Nithya Menon). The plot incorporates the intrigues of the Chirakkal royal house, where Kelu serves as commander- in- chief, its rivalry with the house of Arackal, and the assassination of prince Bhanu Vikraman( Ankur Khanna).. The plot also incorporates such historical figures as Estêvão da Gama( Alexx O' Nell), Vasco da Gama( Alexx O'Nell& Robin Pratt) and Chenichery Kurup( Jagathy Sreekumar). The film was made on a budget of more than, making it the second- most expensive Malayalam film at the time, after Gokulam Gopalan's" Pazhassi Raja"( 2009). The film also marked the debut of Prithviraj Sukumaran as producer. Urumi is a 2011 Indian Malayalam- language period action film written by Shankar Ramakrishnan and directed and co-produced by Santosh Sivan. " Urumi" was released in Hindi as" Ek Yodha Shoorveer," in Tamil as" Urumi: Padhinaintham Nootrandu Uraivaal" written by Sasikumaran and dubbed in Telugu with the same title," Urumi". The film was critically acclaimed and a huge success at the box-office. It won two Kerala State Film Awards, for Best Background Music( Deepak Dev) and for Best Sound Recordist( M. R. Rajakrishnan). It also won the Best film and Best Director in Imagine India Film Festival in Barcelona. It was also the Opening Film of the Panorama Section in Goa Film Festival. <SEP> Santosh graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India( FTII) and has to date completed 45 feature films and 41 documentaries. He is a founding member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers( ISC) and is the most awarded Director of Photography( DOP) in India. Santosh became the first Cinematographer in the Asia-Pacific region to join the American Society of Cinematographers( ASC) membership. As a cinematographer, he has won five National Film Awards – including four for Best Feature Film Cinematography. Santosh Sivan( born 8 February 1964) is an Indian cinematographer, film director, producer and actor known for his works in English cinema, Malayalam cinema, Tamil cinema, Telugu cinema, Hindi cinema. As of 2014, he has received eleven National Film Awards, and twenty one international awards for his works. He was awarded the Padma Shri for his contributions to Indian cinema in 2014. <SEP> The Sweet and the Bitter is a 2007 Italian crime- drama film directed by Andrea Porporati. It entered the competition at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. <SEP> I Want Your Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film. Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews. The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons. The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes. The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword. This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively. <SEP> Clavell is best known as the author of his Asian Saga novels, a number of which have had television adaptations. James Clavell( born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell, 10 October 1921 – 6 September 1994), was an Australian( and later naturalized American) novelist, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell also authored such screenplays as those for" The Fly"( 1958)( based on the short story by George Langelaan) and" The Great Escape"( 1963)( based on the personal account of Paul Brickhill).