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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 …
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- Harakiri (1962) Director
- Kwaidan (1965) Director
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) Director
- The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961) Producer
- Samurai Rebellion (1967) Director
- Dodes'ka-den (1970) Executive Producer
- The Empty Table (1985) Director
- The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959) Producer
- Fossil (1972) Director
- Final Approach (2004) Executive Producer
- The Inheritance (1962) Director
- Tokyo Olympiad (1965) Thanks
- Broken Drum (1949) Screenplay
- The Revenge Champion (1931) Screenplay
- Glowing Autumn (1978) Director
- Inn of Evil (1971) Director
- The Human Condition (1959) Creator
- The Fossil (1975) Director
- The Thick-Walled Room (1956) Director
- Hymn to a Tired Man (1968) Director
- Black River (1957) Director
- I Will Buy You (1956) Director
- The Portrait (1948) Assistant Director
- Beautiful Days (1955) Director
- Dora-heita (2000) Screenplay
- Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 (1949) Assistant Director
- Tokyo Trial (1983) Writer
- Unification of Japan 62 (2024) Cast
- Carmen Comes Home (1951) Assistant Director
- Sincere Heart (1953) Director
- Fountainhead (1956) Director
- Apostasy (1948) Assistant Director
- Three Loves (1954) Director
- Youth of the Son (1952) Director
- Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky (1954) Director
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Most-watched Masaki Kobayashi films currently: Harakiri (1962), Kwaidan (1965), The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959), The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961), Samurai Rebellion (1967).
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Selected TV credits: Fossil (1972), Final Approach (2004), The Human Condition (1959).
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