French-Japanese film hosted by French director? No, an American one (9)
I believe the answer is:
tarantino
'french-japanese film' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'hosted by french director? no an american one' is the wordplay.
'hosted by' is an insertion indicator.
'french director?' becomes 'tati' (I've seen this before).
'an american one' becomes 'ran' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'tati'+'no'='tatino'
'tatino' placed around 'ran' is 'TARANTINO'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tarantino that I've seen before include "Quentin -, American film director" , "Who in tarnation is this US film-maker?" , "Quentin -, US director" , "Quentin ... film maker" , "He makes films" .)