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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).
Masaki Kobayashi was a Japanese director and writer known for his samurai and anti-war films. He was born in 1916 and died in 1996, and worked with actors like Tatsuya Nakadai and Kinuyo Tanaka.
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Masaki Kobayashi was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer who has directed twenty films in a career spanning 33 years. He is best known for The Human Condition Trilogy, the Academy Award–nominated horror film Kwaidan and the jidaigeki films Harakiri and Samurai Rebellion. [1] [2]
YearTitleOriginal TitleDirector1949The Yotsuya Ghost StoryShin'yaku Yotsuya kaidanNo1949Broken DrumYabure-daikoNo1952Youth of the SonMusuko no seishunYes1953Sincere HeartMagokoroYesOct 14, 1996 · Kobayashi in his greatest periods in the Forties and Fifties, now seen as the Golden Age of Japanese cinematic art, was a perfectionist who made no compromises. He...
Kobayashi Masaki was a Japanese motion-picture director whose 9 12-hour trilogy, Ningen no joken (The Human Condition: No Greater Love, 1959; Road to Eternity, 1959; A Soldier’s Prayer, 1961), a monumental criticism of war, constitutes the best example of his films of social concern.
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A nine-hour film adaptation of a novel by Junpei Gomikawa, The Human Condition follows the fate of Kaji, a man who tries to resist the corrupt system of Japan's wartime mentality. Directed by Masaki Kobayashi and starring Tatsuya Nakadai, the film is a masterpiece of Japanese cinema and a humanist critique of war and society.
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Jan 29, 2024 · Collider ranks the best films of Masaki Kobayashi, a prominent Japanese director who made diverse and compelling movies from the 1950s to the 1980s. See his samurai epics, war dramas, crime thrillers, and more in this list.
