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Masaki Kobayashi(1916-1996)

  • Director
  • Writer
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Masaki Kobayashi
Masaki Kobayashi was born on 14 February 1916 in Hokkaido, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Harakiri (1962), Samurai Rebellion (1967) and The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959). He died on 4 October 1996 in Tokyo, Japan.
BornFebruary 14, 1916
DiedOctober 4, 1996(80)
BornFebruary 14, 1916
DiedOctober 4, 1996(80)
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  • Awards
    • 26 wins & 10 nominations

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Masaki Kobayashi
Masaki Kobayashi

Known for

Harakiri (1962)
Harakiri
8.6
  • Director
  • 1962
Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Samurai Rebellion
8.3
  • Director
  • 1967
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
8.5
  • Director
  • 1959
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
8.8
  • Director
  • 1961

Credits

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Director

  • Family Without a Dinner Table (1985)
    Family Without a Dinner Table
    • Director
    • 1985
  • Tokyo Trial (1983)
    Tokyo Trial
    • Director
    • 1983
  • Moeru aki
    • Director
    • 1979
  • The Fossil (1974)
    The Fossil
    • Director
    • 1974
  • Inn of Evil (1971)
    Inn of Evil
    • Director
    • 1971
  • Hymn to a Tired Man (1968)
    Hymn to a Tired Man
    • Director
    • 1968
  • Samurai Rebellion (1967)
    Samurai Rebellion
    • Director
    • 1967
  • Kwaidan (1964)
    Kwaidan
    • Director
    • 1964
  • Harakiri (1962)
    Harakiri
    • Director
    • 1962
  • The Inheritance (1962)
    The Inheritance
    • Director
    • 1962
  • The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
    The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
    • Director
    • 1961
  • The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
    The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
    • Director
    • 1959
  • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
    • Director
    • 1959
  • Black River (1957)
    Black River
    • Director
    • 1957
  • I Will Buy You (1956)
    I Will Buy You
    • Director
    • 1956

Writer

  • I Went To (2000)
    I Went To
    • screenplay
    • 2000
  • Family Without a Dinner Table (1985)
    Family Without a Dinner Table
    • Writer
    • 1985
  • Tokyo Trial (1983)
    Tokyo Trial
    • writer
    • 1983
  • The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
    The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
    • screenplay
    • 1961
  • The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
    The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
    • screenplay
    • 1959
  • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
    • screenplay
    • 1959
  • Three Loves (1954)
    Three Loves
    • Writer
    • 1954
  • A Broken Drum (1949)
    A Broken Drum
    • screenplay
    • 1949
  • Ghost of Yotsuya (1949)
    Ghost of Yotsuya
    • screenplay (uncredited)
    • 1949

Second Unit or Assistant Director

  • Umi no hanabi (1951)
    Umi no hanabi
    • assistant director
    • 1951
  • Carmen Comes Home (1951)
    Carmen Comes Home
    • assistant director
    • 1951
  • A Broken Drum (1949)
    A Broken Drum
    • assistant director
    • 1949
  • Ghost of Yotsuya (1949)
    Ghost of Yotsuya
    • assistant director (uncredited)
    • 1949
  • Apostasy (1948)
    Apostasy
    • assistant director
    • 1948
  • Eitarô Ozawa and Ichirô Sugai in The Portrait (1948)
    The Portrait
    • chief assistant director
    • 1948

Personal details

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  • Born
    • February 14, 1916
    • Hokkaido, Japan
  • Died
    • October 4, 1996
    • Tokyo, Japan(cardiac arrest)
  • Relatives
    • Kinuyo Tanaka(Cousin)

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    Keisuke Kinoshita, Akira Kurosawa, Kon Ichikawa and Masaki Kobayashi founded their own company, Yonki No Kai ('Club of The Four Knights'), in 1969 to assert an independent film making process and escape the studio system. They managed to produce only one movie, Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den (1970).
  • Trademarks
      Often worked with actor Tatsuya Nakadai.

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