8.5
8.5
Harakiri
1962
Director
Masaki Kobayashi
N/A
CommunityBiographyvia wikipedia
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 Samurai Rebellion (1967), and the horror anthology epic Kwaidan (1964). Senses of Cinema described him as "one of the finest depicters of Japanese society in the 1950s and 1960s."
Filmography (28 movies)
8.4
8.4
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961
Director
8.2
8.2
Samurai Rebellion
1967
Director
8.2
8.2
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
1959
Director
8.1
8.1
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
Director
7.8
7.8
Hymn to a Tired Man
1968
Director
7.7
7.7
Kwaidan
1965
Director
7.2
7.2
The Inheritance
1962
Director
7.1
7.1
The Thick-Walled Room
1956
Director
7.0
7.0
I Will Buy You
1956
Director
7.0
7.0
Dodes'ka-den
1970
Executive Producer
6.8
6.8
The Fossil
1975
Director
6.8
6.8
Tokyo Trial
1983
Writer
6.8
6.8
Black River
1957
Director
6.7
6.7
Broken Drum
1949
Screenplay
6.6
6.6
Youth of the Son
1952
Director
6.6
6.6
Beautiful Days
1955
Director
6.3
6.3
Sincere Heart
1953
Director
6.0
6.0
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
1954
Director
6.0
6.0
Three Loves
1954
Writer
5.9
5.9
Inn of Evil
1971
Director
5.8
5.8
Fountainhead
1956
Director
5.3
5.3
The Empty Table
1985
Screenplay
5.1
5.1
Dora-heita
2000
Screenplay
Masaki Kobayashi on 'The Human Condition'
1993
as Self
The Revenge Champion
1931
Screenplay
The Human Condition
1961
Producer
Glowing Autumn
1978
Director
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