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Masaki Kobayashi

Masaki Kobayashi 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…

Born 1916 · Japan · Active 1951–1985 · 23 films

Filmography

Carmen Comes Home — 1951
Youth of the Son — 1952
Sincere Heart — 1953
Three Loves — 1954
Somewhere Under the Broad Sky — 1954
Beautiful Days — 1955
I Will Buy You — 1956
Fountainhead — 1956
The Thick-Walled Room — 1956
Black River — 1957
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love — 1959 · shot by Yoshio Miyajima
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity — 1959 · shot by Yoshio Miyajima
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer — 1961 · shot by Yoshio Miyajima
Harakiri — 1962 · shot by Yoshio Miyajima
The Inheritance — 1962 · shot by Takashi Kawamata
Kwaidan — 1964 · shot by Yoshio Miyajima
Samurai Rebellion — 1967 · shot by Kazuo Yamada
Hymn to a Tired Man — 1968 · shot by Kōzō Okazaki
Inn of Evil — 1971 · shot by Kōzō Okazaki
The Fossil — 1975
Glowing Autumn — 1979
Tokyo Trial — 1983
The Empty Table — 1985 · shot by Kōzō Okazaki

Source

Masaki Kobayashi on Wikipedia

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