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Masaki Kobayashi
Highest Rated: 100% Hara-Kiri (1962)
Lowest Rated: 73% The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Birthday: Feb 14, 1916
Birthplace: Hokkaido, Japan
Best known for his epic trilogy, "The Human Condition" ("No Greater Love" 1959, "Road to Eternity" 1959, "A Soldier's Prayer" 1961), which documents Japan's wartime atrocities as seen through the eyes of a young pacifist. Kobayashi's gift for grand widescreen compositions was also well used in his visually sumptuous, but socially critical, trilogy of period dramas--"Harakiri" (1962), "Kwaidan" (1964) and "Rebellion" (1967).
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Doraheita | Writer | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fossil | Director | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inn of Evil (At the Risk of My Life) | Director | - | 1971 |
| 73% | 77% | Dodes 'Ka-Den | Executive Producer | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hymn to a Tired Man | Director | - | 1968 |
| 100% | 93% | Rebellion | Director | - | 1967 |
| 91% | 90% | Kwaidan | Director | - | 1964 |
| 100% | 97% | Hara-Kiri | Director | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Road to Eternity |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Inheritance |
Director, Producer |
- | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 97% | A Soldier's Prayer |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1961 |
| 73% | 95% | The Human Condition I: No Greater Love |
Director, Writer |
- | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 94% | The Human Condition 2: The Road to Eternity |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Kuroi kawa (Black River) | Director | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fountainhead | Director | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Black River | Director | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | The Thick-Walled Room | Director | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beautiful Days | Director | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Youth of the Son | Director | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Broken Drum |
Assistant Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1949 |