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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).

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 97% Hara-Kiri
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100% 93% Rebellion
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91% 90% Kwaidan
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73% 95% The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
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73% 77% Dodes 'Ka-Den
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Doraheita
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Inn of Evil (At the Risk of My Life)
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A Broken Drum
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94% The Human Condition 2: The Road to Eternity
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Road to Eternity
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Filmography

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Doraheita 2000 Writer The Fossil 1975 Director Inn of Evil (At the Risk of My Life) 1971 Director Dodes 'Ka-Den 73% 77% 1970 Executive Producer Hymn to a Tired Man 1968 Director Rebellion 100% 93% 1967 Director Kwaidan 91% 90% 1964 Director Hara-Kiri 100% 97% 1962 Director Road to Eternity 1962 Director, Writer, Producer The Inheritance 1962 Director, Producer A Soldier's Prayer 97% 1961 Director, Writer, Producer The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 73% 95% 1959 Director, Writer The Human Condition 2: The Road to Eternity 94% 1959 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Kuroi kawa (Black River) 83% 1957 Director Fountainhead 1956 Director Black River 1956 Director The Thick-Walled Room 60% 1956 Director Beautiful Days 1955 Director Youth of the Son 1952 Director A Broken Drum 1949 Assistant Director, Screenwriter
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