Masaki Kobayashi
- Directing
- February 14, 1916 · Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
- October 4, 1996
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Unification of Japan 62
- Final Approach · Executive producer
- Dora-heita · Screenplay
- Masaki Kobayashi on 'The Human Condition' · Self
- The Empty Table · Director, Screenplay
- Tokyo Trial · Director, Writer
- Glowing Autumn · Director
- The Fossil · Director
- Fossil · Director, Creator
- Inn of Evil · Director
- Dodes'ka-den · Executive producer
- Hymn to a Tired Man · Director
- Samurai Rebellion · Director
- Tokyo Olympiad · Thanks
- Kwaidan · Director
- Harakiri · Director
- The Inheritance · Director, Producer
- The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer · Director, Screenplay
- The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity · Director, Screenplay
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love · Director, Screenplay
- Black River · Director
- I Will Buy You · Director
- The Thick-Walled Room · Director
- Fountainhead · Director
- Beautiful Days · Director
- Three Loves · Director, Writer
- Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky · Director
- Sincere Heart · Director
- Youth of the Son · Director
- Carmen Comes Home · Assistant Director
- Broken Drum · Screenplay, Assistant Director
- Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 · Assistant Director
- Apostasy · Assistant Director
- The Portrait · Assistant Director
- The Revenge Champion · Screenplay