小栗康平（日本导演）

　　1945年出生，1973年他参加了特摄电视剧《流星人佐恩》的制作，在部分剧集中担任导演。1981年，小栗执导的电影处女作《泥之河》夺得了莫斯科国际电影节的银奖，并获得了奥斯卡最佳外语

片奖的提名，使之一举成名。1984年的《为了伽耶子》在柏林国际电影节上获奖；1990年的《死之棘》在戛纳国际电影界上得奖，1996年的《沉睡的男人》又在柏林、蒙特利尔国际电影节上博得了荣誉。2005年，小栗集结了一批实力派演员推出了以农村为舞台的幻想故事《沉睡之树》。

　　Kohei OGURI (Japanese director)

　　Born in 1945, Kohei Oguri graduated in drama from the University of Waseda. Then, he became an assistant director, working with, among others, Masahiro SHINODA and Kiriro URAYAMA. In 1981 he directed his first feature MUDDY RIVER, a story set in the 50s, about the friendship between a middle-class boy and the children who live on a houseboat moored next to his parent's restaurant, which won him many awards including the KINEMAJUNPO MAGAZINE's Best Japanese Film of the Year Award and Second Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival, as well as was nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1982.

　　In 1984 he directed his second film FOR KAYAI (from the novel by Hue-Song LEE ) and received the Georges SADOUL Award. In 1990, STING OF DEATH ( from the novel by Toshio SHIMAO ), about the near break-up of a marriage, which, with its stylized imagery, marked a major step in the development of a personal directorial style, receiving both the GRAND PRIX 1990 and the INTERNAITONAL CRITICS PRIZE ( FIPRESCI ) at the Cannes Film Festival. With this film, Oguri won worldwide acclaim. THE SLEEPING MAN, his fourth feature film, won Special Grand Prize of the Jury at the Montreal World Film Festival in 1996.