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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
- Samurai Rebellion (1967) Director
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) Director
- The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959) Producer
- The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961) Producer
- Dodes'ka-den (1970) Executive Producer
- Final Approach (2004) Executive Producer
- The Inheritance (1962) Director
- The Empty Table (1985) Director
- Dora-heita (2000) Screenplay
- Broken Drum (1949) Screenplay
- Black River (1957) Director
- The Fossil (1975) Director
- Inn of Evil (1971) Director
- Fossil (1972) Director
- The Thick-Walled Room (1956) Director
- Tokyo Olympiad (1965) Thanks
- Carmen Comes Home (1951) Assistant Director
- I Will Buy You (1956) Director
- Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 (1949) Assistant Director
- Apostasy (1948) Assistant Director
- Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky (1954) Director
- Fountainhead (1956) Director
- Tokyo Trial (1983) Writer
- Glowing Autumn (1978) Director
- Hymn to a Tired Man (1968) Director
- Beautiful Days (1955) Director
- The Portrait (1948) Assistant Director
- Youth of the Son (1952) Director
- Unification of Japan 62 (2024) Cast
- Sincere Heart (1953) Director
- The Revenge Champion (1931) Screenplay
- Three Loves (1954) Director
- Masaki Kobayashi on 'The Human Condition' (1993) as Self
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Most-watched Masaki Kobayashi films currently: Harakiri (1962), Kwaidan (1965), Samurai Rebellion (1967), The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959), The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959).
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Selected TV credits: Final Approach (2004), Fossil (1972).
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