Director
Masaki Kobayashi
110 years · Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan · 27 films
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.
Best known for
Harakiri
1962 · Director
Kwaidan
1965 · Director
On TCM
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959 · Director, Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
Samurai Rebellion
1967 · Director
On Criterion Channel
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
1959 · Producer, Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961 · Producer, Director
On Criterion Channel
Filmography 27
Unification of Japan 62
2024 · Actor
Dora-heita
2000 · Screenplay
Masaki Kobayashi on 'The Human Condition'
1993 · Self
The Empty Table
1985 · Director, Screenplay
Tokyo Trial
1983 · Writer, Director
Glowing Autumn
1978 · Director
The Fossil
1975 · Director
Inn of Evil
1971 · Director
Hymn to a Tired Man
1968 · Director
Samurai Rebellion
1967 · Director
On Criterion Channel
Kwaidan
1965 · Director
On TCM
Harakiri
1962 · Director
The Inheritance
1962 · Director, Producer
On Criterion Channel
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961 · Producer, Director
On Criterion Channel
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
1959 · Producer, Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959 · Director, Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
Black River
1957 · Director
On Criterion Channel
I Will Buy You
1956 · Director
On Criterion Channel
The Thick-Walled Room
1956 · Director
On Criterion Channel
Fountainhead
1956 · Director
Beautiful Days
1955 · Director
Three Loves
1954 · Director, Writer
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
1954 · Director
Sincere Heart
1953 · Director