question: Was Andrew Lau, or Keisuke Kinoshita, born first?
answer: Keisuke Kinoshita
context: Title: Keisuke Kinoshita
  Passage: Keisuke Kinoshita (木下 惠介 , "Kinoshita Keisuke" , December 5, 1912 – December 30, 1998) was a Japanese film director.
  Title: Yorokobi mo kanashimi mo ikutoshitsuki
  Passage: Yorokobi mo kanashimi mo ikutoshitsuki (喜びも悲しみも幾歳月 ) aka The Lighthouse (UK) or Times of Joy and Sorrow (USA) or "Years of Joy and Sorrow", is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.
  Title: Carmen Comes Home
  Passage: Carmen Comes Home (カルメン故郷に帰る , "Karumen kokyō ni kaeru" ) is a 1951 color Japanese film comedy directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.  Filmed using Fujicolor, it was Japan's first color film.
  Title: Andrew Lau
  Passage: Andrew Lau Wai-Keung (born 4 April 1960) is a Hong Kong film director, producer, and cinematographer.  Lau began his career in the 1980s and 1990s, serving as a cinematographer to filmmakers such as Ringo Lam, Wong Jing and Wong Kar-wai.  In the 1990s, Lau decided to have more creative freedom as a cinematographer by becoming a film director and producer.  Apart from making films in his native Hong Kong, Lau has also made films in China, Korea and the United States.  A highly prolific filmmaker, Lau has made films in a variety of genres, and is most notable in the West for his action and crime films which include the "Young and Dangerous" film series, the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy (the latter co-directed together with Alan Mak), and "Revenge of the Green Dragons" (executive produced by Martin Scorsese).
  Title: Twenty-Four Eyes
  Passage: Twenty-Four Eyes (二十四の瞳 , Nijū-shi no Hitomi ) , based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Sakae Tsuboi, is a 1954 Japanese film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.
  Title: She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
  Passage: She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum ("野菊の如き君なりき Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki"), also known as You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum or My First Love Affair, is a Japanese film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita which was initially released in 1955.  It is based on a novel by Saicho Ito.
  Title: Zenzo Matsuyama
  Passage: Zenzō Matsuyama (松山 善三 , Matsuyama Zenzō , 3 April 1925 – 27 August 2016) was a Japanese screenwriter and film director.  He was born in Kobe and grew up in Yokohama.  After leaving school, he began training to become a doctor but dropped out of medical school to take up a career in films.  In 1948 he became an assistant director at Shochiku studios.  With the support of Keisuke Kinoshita, he also began writing film scripts.  His first filmed script was "Kojo no tsuki", based on the song Kōjō no Tsuki, filmed in 1954.  In 1955 he married actress Hideko Takamine.  He made his debut as a director with a film called "Na mo naku mazushiku utsukushiku" in 1961.  He continued to work as a scriptwriter for films like Proof of the Man as well as a director.  He also wrote the lyrics for a song "Ippon no enpitsu" for Hibari Misora.
  Title: A Japanese Tragedy
  Passage: A Japanese Tragedy (日本の悲劇 , Nihon no higeki ) , also known as Tragedy of Japan, is a Japanese film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita and released in 1953.  Kinoshita interspersed newsreel footage within the film in an attempt to relate the story of the film to the wider context of Japan's post-war difficulties.  The film tells the story of a mother, played by Yûko Mochizuki, who had to raise two children during and after World War II but whose children reject her.
  Title: Kaneto Shindo
  Passage: Kaneto Shindo (新藤 兼人 , Shindō Kaneto , April 22, 1912 – May 29, 2012) was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and author.  He directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238.  His best known films as a director include "Children of Hiroshima", "The Naked Island", "Onibaba", "Kuroneko" and "A Last Note".  His scripts were filmed by such directors as Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Fumio Kamei and Tadashi Imai.
  Title: Shochiku
  Passage: Shochiku Company Limited (松竹株式会社 , Shōchiku Kabushiki gaisha ) () is a Japanese movie studio and production company for kabuki.  It also produces and distributes anime films.  Its best remembered directors include Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita and Yōji Yamada.  Shochiku has also produced films by highly regarded independent and "loner" directors such as Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, Akira Kurosawa and Taiwanese New Wave director Hou Hsiao-hsien.  It is a member of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ), and is one of Japan's Big Four film studios.
citations: Andrew Lau Keisuke Kinoshita