
Person Detail
Masaki Kobayashi
Catalogued films 25Director 23
Masaki Kobayashi (小林 正樹, Kobayashi Masaki, February 14, 1916 – October 4, 1996) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, best known for the epic trilogy The Human Condition (1959–1961), the samurai films Harakiri (1962) and Samurai Rebellion (1967), and the horror anthology Kwaidan (1964). Senses of Cinema described him as "one of the finest depicters of Japanese society in the 1950s and 1960s."
Filmography
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Fukushima Hula Girls
The Empty Table
Tokyo Trial
Glowing Autumn
The Fossil
Inn of Evil
Hymn to a Tired Man
Samurai Rebellion
Kwaidan
Harakiri
The Inheritance
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Black River
I Will Buy You
The Thick-Walled Room
Fountainhead
Beautiful Days
Somewhere Under the Broad Sky
Three Loves
Sincere Heart
Youth of the Son


