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Masaki Kobayashi
Otaru, Hokkaidō, Japan
Masaki Kobayashi (小林 正樹, Kobayashi Masaki; February 14, 1916 – October 4, 1996) was a Japanese filmmaker. He is best remembered for directing the epic war trilogy The Human Condit…
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Masaki Kobayashi (小林 正樹, Kobayashi Masaki; February 14, 1916 – October 4, 1996) was a Japanese filmmaker. He is best remembered for directing the epic war trilogy The Human Condition (1959–1961), the samurai films Harakiri (1962) and Samurai Rebellion (1967), and the horror anthology epic Kwaidan (1964). Senses of Cinema described him as "one of the finest depicters of Japanese society in the 1950s and 1960s." Although overshadowed by other Japanese filmmakers like Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirō Ozu in his lifetime, his work has gained wider traction in the 21st century with several of his films being ranked as some of the greatest films ever made. Description above from the Wikipedia article Masaki Kobayashi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2024
Unification of Japan 62
Movie
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2004
Final Approach
TV show Executive Producer
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2000
Dora-heita
Movie Screenplay
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1993
Masaki Kobayashi on 'The Human Condition'
Movie Self
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1985
The Empty Table
Movie Director
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1983
Tokyo Trial
Movie Director
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1978
Glowing Autumn
Movie Director
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1975
The Fossil
Movie Director
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1972
Fossil
TV show Director
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1971
Inn of Evil
Movie Director
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1970
Dodes'ka-den
Movie Executive Producer
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1968
Hymn to a Tired Man
Movie Director
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1967
Samurai Rebellion
Movie Director
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1965
Tokyo Olympiad
Movie Thanks
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1965
Kwaidan
Movie Director
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1962
Harakiri
Movie Director
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1962
The Inheritance
Movie Director
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1961
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Movie Director
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1959
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Movie Director
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1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Movie Director
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1957
Black River
Movie Director
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1956
I Will Buy You
Movie Director
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1956
The Thick-Walled Room
Movie Director
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1956
Fountainhead
Movie Director
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1955
Beautiful Days
Movie Director
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1954
Three Loves
Movie Director
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1954
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Movie Director
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1953
Sincere Heart
Movie Director
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1952
Youth of the Son
Movie Director
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1951
Carmen Comes Home
Movie Assistant Director
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1949
Broken Drum
Movie Screenplay
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1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Movie Assistant Director
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1948
Apostasy
Movie Assistant Director
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1948
The Portrait
Movie Assistant Director
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1931
The Revenge Champion
Movie Screenplay
