It's hard to be sure without full sentences.You need a comma after "director".
1 is right. The word 'Japanese' can be treated as an adjective describing nationality and modifying the word 'director'. Since 'director' is a singular noun, we need to add the indefinite article 'a' in front of it.
It's hard to be sure without full sentences.
"By a Japanese director starring in his own film, Toyota Mitsubishi has shown that this primarily American habit of dual roles has reached the Land of the Rising Sun."
(I know it's not a quality sentence but it demonstrates the point.)
Thanks for your explanation. I agree with you on that, however I feel that the second sentence is still good to me without “a”. For instance, “By acclaimed director, Steven Spielberg”, I’m sure we still can accept this. It’s good to go. Then why, the second phrase is wrong which is “By Japanese director starring...”. Can you please explain further, sometime I couldn’t differentiate them. Thanks.
I've already demonstrated the impossibility of answering properly without a full sentence. Are you missing that point? Nothing you have offered so far is a sentence. Please help us to help you.Thanks for your kind explanation. How if the sentence as “By a Japanese director starring Seung Woo and Mi Suk Kim”, do we still need to use the comma after “director”?
I've already demonstrated the impossibility of answering properly without a full sentence. Are you missing that point? Nothing you have offered so far is a sentence. Please help us to help you.
In that phrase, you need the indefinite article "a" before "Japanese". It is not a sentence.
You need to see it as a shortened version of "This is a film by a Japanese director, starring XXX and YYY". Note that it doesn't give the name of the director. If it did, the indefinite article would not be required. "This is a film by Japanese director AAA BBB, starring XXX and YYY".
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