Masaki Kobayashi
Directing · Director · Screenplay · Producer
Born Feb 14, 1916 · Otaru, Hokkaidō, Japan
Active 1931–1996 · Awards: Jury Prize, Jury Prize, Sutherland Trophy, Medal with Purple Ribbon, Mainichi Film Award for Best Director
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) - DirectorHymn to a Tired Man (1968) - DirectorThe Fossil (1975) - DirectorCarmen Comes Home (1951) - Assistant DirectorInn of Evil (1971) - DirectorYotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 (1949) - Assistant DirectorTokyo Trial (1983) - Director · WriterYouth of the Son (1952) - DirectorBeautiful Days (1955) - DirectorSincere Heart (1953) - DirectorSomewhere Beneath the Wide Sky (1954) - DirectorThe Empty Table (1985) - Director · ScreenplayGlowing Autumn (1978) - DirectorBroken Drum (1949) - Screenplay · Assistant Director