Directors listed (in order): Asghar Farhadi, Mikio Naruse, Zhang Yimou, Keisuke Kinoshita, Quentin Tarantino, Kenji Mizoguchi, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Yasujiro Ozu, Bimal Roy, Ryan Coogler, Khalik Allah, Denis Villnueve

Note: Other fave directors like Kim Bora (House of Hummingbird, The Recorder Exam) and Yoon Ga-eun (The World of Us, The House of Us, Sprout) don't yet have enough films under their belt to make this list.

Honorable Mentions (movies that I adore that aren't included due to the "top 4" gimmick)
Farhadi: The Past, A Hero
Naruse: The Other Woman, Yearning
Zhang: Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, Hero
Kinoshita: Twenty-Four Eyes, The Snow Flurry, Ballad of Narayama
Tarantino: The Hateful 8
Kore-eda: Without Memory, Ishibumi