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Masaki Kobayashi (I) (1916–1996)

Director | Writer | Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Attended art classes at Waseda University. His work with the Shochiku film company was interrupted by becoming a POW during the Sino-Japanese war. His most famous film, the epic "The Human Condition", set in a Manchurian forced labour camp, was partly based on his experience of wartime incarceration... See more trivia »

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in Hokkaido, Japan

Died:

(age 80) in Tokyo, Japan
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2000 Dora-heita (screenplay)
 
1985 Shokutaku no nai ie
 
1983 Tokyo Trial (documentary) (writer)
 
1961 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (screenplay)
 
1959/II The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (screenplay)
 
1959/I The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (screenplay)
 
1954 Mittsu no ai
 
1949 A Broken Drum (screenplay)
 
1949 The Yotsuda Phantom (screenplay)
 
1951 Karumen kokyo ni kaeru (first assistant director)
 
1949 A Broken Drum (assistant director)
 
1949 The Yotsuda Phantom (assistant director)
 
1948 The Portrait (chief assistant director)
 
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2011 Black Sunshine: Conversations with T.F. Mou (documentary) (special thanks)
 
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1994 Music for the Movies: Tôru Takemitsu (documentary)
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Attended art classes at Waseda University. His work with the Shochiku film company was interrupted by becoming a POW during the Sino-Japanese war. His most famous film, the epic "The Human Condition", set in a Manchurian forced labour camp, was partly based on his experience of wartime incarceration... See more »

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