1.   A Japanese filmmaker is doing a documentary.

2.   Hiroshi Teshigahara, a celebrated Japanese filmmaker and grand master of the Sogetsu School for flower arrangement, died on Saturday at a hospital here.

3.   Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa has been lionized by such American directors as Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Robert Altman.

4.   Some Japan-watchers suggest that film attendance in Japan has fallen because many Japanese filmmakers crank out gangster and pornographic films.

5.   And by taking top honors at the Venice festival, he rounded out a trio of big prizes won by Japanese filmmakers last year.

6.   But in a bizarre bit of social engineering, U.S. occupation forces instructed Japanese filmmakers to begin showing on-screen kisses.

7.   Director George Lucas, who came to Japan in person last month to plug the film, is an avid fan of the late Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

8.   Even Oscar-winning Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa does it.

9.   Japanese filmmaker Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co. said Monday it has reached an agreement giving U.S. entertainment giant Walt Disney Co. rights to distribute its next animated movie outside Japan.

10.   Late Japanese filmmaker praised worldwide.