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Ishiro Honda (1911-1993)
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 70
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Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017)
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Byron P. Howard, 56
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Hiro Murai, 42
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Katsuhiro Otomo, 71
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Masaki Kobayashi (1916-1996)
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Keisuke Kinoshita (1912-1998)
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Takashi Shimizu, 53
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Shinichiro Watanabe, 60
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Mamoru Hosoda, 57
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 46
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