Masaki Kobayashi
Directing · Director · Screenplay · Producer
Born Feb 14, 1916 · Otaru, Hokkaidō, Japan
Active 1931–1996
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…
Filmography
Harakiri (1962) — DirectorKwaidan (1965) — DirectorSamurai Rebellion (1967) — DirectorThe Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) — Director · ScreenplayThe Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961) — Screenplay · Director · ProducerThe Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959) — Producer · Director · ScreenplayDodes'ka-den (1970) — Executive ProducerThe Inheritance (1962) — Director · ProducerBlack River (1957) — DirectorThe Thick-Walled Room (1956) — DirectorI Will Buy You (1956) — DirectorCarmen Comes Home (1951) — Assistant DirectorInn of Evil (1971) — DirectorHymn to a Tired Man (1968) — DirectorThe Fossil (1975) — DirectorYotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 (1949) — Assistant DirectorTokyo Trial (1983) — Director · WriterYouth of the Son (1952) — DirectorBeautiful Days (1955) — DirectorSincere Heart (1953) — DirectorGlowing Autumn (1978) — DirectorBroken Drum (1949) — Screenplay · Assistant DirectorThree Loves (1954) — Director · WriterSomewhere Beneath the Wide Sky (1954) — Director