Masaki Kobayashi 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).
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Filmography 28
Harakiri
Kwaidan
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Samurai Rebellion
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Dodes'ka-den
Black River
The Inheritance
Inn of Evil
The Thick-Walled Room
I Will Buy You
Dora-heita
The Fossil
Sincere Heart
Tokyo Trial
Fountainhead
Youth of the Son
Beautiful Days
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Broken Drum
Hymn to a Tired Man
The Empty Table
Three Loves
The Revenge Champion
Glowing Autumn
Unification of Japan 62
Masaki Kobayashi on 'The Human Condition'47 credits on file
Television 3
Final Approach
Fossil
The Human ConditionAwards 5
Connected to Masaki 6
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Masaki Kobayashi 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.
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