Question: Do both films, American Ninja and The Lightning Raider, have the directors who are from the same country?

Directed by Sam Firstenberg, who specialized in this genre in the 1980s, the film stars Michael Dudikoff in the title role. American Ninja is a 1985 American ninja action film produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus's Cannon Films. It had a mixed reception but it was a financial success and since then, it was considered a cult film. <SEP> The Lightning Raider is a 1919 American action film serial directed by George B. Seitz. It was the on- screen debut of Boris Karloff. The film serial survives in an incomplete state with some reels preserved at the Library of Congress and other film archives. <SEP> Akbar Oluwakemi- Idowu Gbajabiamila( born May 6, 1979), is a former professional American football player of the National Football League( NFL), who currently is the co-host for" American Ninja Warrior", works as a sports analyst for the NFL Network, and author. The Los Angeles native grew up in the Crenshaw district with his mother and father, both of who were born and raised in Nigeria, and his 6 siblings. Among his siblings is Green Bay Packers defensive end Kabeer Gbaja- Biamila. Gbajabiamila was signed by the Oakland Raiders as an undrafted free agent, in 2003. Before beginning his professional career, he played college football at San Diego State University. Gbajabiamila also played for the San Diego Chargers and Miami Dolphins. Gbajabiamila currently serves as a board member for the Asomugha Foundation, an organization aimed at creating better educational opportunities for impoverished communities. Akbar also serves on the Board of the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which raises millions of dollars for Parkinson ’s research. Gbajabiamila currently co-hosts American Ninja Warrior alongside Matt Iseman and Zuri Hall. American Ninja Warrior is an American sports entertainment competition, which features hundreds of competitors attempting to complete series of obstacle courses of increasing difficulty in various cities across the United States, in hopes of becoming the season's" American Ninja Warrior." In addition to this, he also hosts the Universal Kids spin off show, American Ninja Warrior Junior as well as NFL Networks ’ highest rated show, NFL Fantasy Live. Gbajabiamila ‘s first book," Everyone Can Be a Ninja", was released on May 7, 2019. <SEP> Sam Firstenberg( born Shmulik Firstenberg on March 13, 1950) is an Israeli- American film director. Born in Poland to a Jewish family, Sam Firstenberg grew up in Jerusalem, directing 22 theatrical feature films since completing his graduate studies in film at Loyola Marymount University, and obtained his higher education in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for having made low- budget B-movies most of his career, among them the first two movies in the American Ninja series," American Ninja" and. Sam Firstenberg has directed films ranging from comedy to action, musical to drama, science fiction, thrillers and horror. <SEP> He was known for his screenplays for action serials, such as" The Perils of Pauline"( 1914) and" The Exploits of Elaine"( 1914). Seitz was born in Boston, Massachusetts, started his career as a playwright, and also wrote some fiction for" up- market" pulp magazines such as" Adventure" and" People's Magazine". Seitz did much of his early work in Fort Lee, New Jersey when many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there. He was the director of more than one hundred films, the writer of more than thirty screenplays, and an actor in seven films. He worked at Columbia Pictures and at Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer where he directed eleven films in the" Andy Hardy" series of the 1930s& 1940s. He died in Hollywood, California in 1944. Although an acquaintance of the cinematographer John F. Seitz, they were not related. George Brackett Seitz( January 3, 1888 – July 8, 1944) was an American playwright, screenwriter, film actor and director. He was the father of George B. Seitz Jr., who was a writer/ director active in the 1940s and 1950s in films and television. <SEP> Ruby Hoffman( July 28, 1886 – September 22, 1973) was an American silent film and stage actress. Ruby Hoffman was born on July 28, 1886 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She was an actress, known for" The Lightning Raider"( 1919)," The Dictator"( 1915) and" The House of Hate"( 1918). She died on September 22, 1973 in Oxford, Ohio, United States.