Search found 3 matches: Takeshi Kitano

1. Takeshi Kitano
2. Joon-ho Bong
3. Toshiaki Toyoda
4. Chan-wook Park
5. Katsuhiro Ôtomo

honorable mentions
Hitoshi Matsumoto
Satoshi Kon
Katsuhito Ishii
Quentin Tarantino

in no particular order:

Takeshi Kitano (Violent Cop, Sonatine, Kids Return)
John Carpenter (The Thing, Assault on Preccinct 13, Halloween)
Steven Spielberg (The Sugarland Express, Jaws, Encounters of the Third Kind)
Werner Herzog (Aguirre the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo)
Satyajit Ray (Apu trilogy)

also ran: David Cronenberg, Spike Lee, John Ford, Bertrand Tavernier, Jia Zhang-ke, Akira Kurosawa, Fritz Lang, Sergio leone, Howard Hawks, Emir Kusturica, Andrei Tarkovsky, Coen bros, Jim Jarmusch. ... many others

1. Ingmar Bergman
2. Werner Herzog
3. Martin Scorsese
4. Akira Kurosawa
5. Sergio Leone

Alternative five
1. Jean-Luc Godard
2. François Truffaut
3. Andrei Tarkovsky
4. Chan-wook Park
5. Coen Brothers

Another alternative:
1. Jim Jarmusch
2. David Cronenberg
3. Zeki Demirkubuz
4. Takeshi Kitano
5. Quentin Tarantino