Director
Masaki Kobayashi
1916Otaru, Hokkaidō, Japan22 Films1 TV Episodes
Masaki Kobayashi (February 14, 1916–October 4, 1996) was a Japanese director. Among his films is Kwaidan (1965), a collection of four ghost stories drawn from the book by Lafcadio Hearn, each of which has a surprise ending. Kobayashi also directed The Human Condition, a trilogy on the effects of World War II on a Japanese pacifist and socialist.
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5.3
The Empty Table
1985
6.8
Tokyo Trial
1983
Glowing Autumn
1978
6.8
The Fossil
1975
6.0
Inn of Evil
1971
7.8
Hymn to a Tired Man
1968
8.2
Samurai Rebellion
1967
7.7
Kwaidan
1965
8.4
Harakiri
1962
7.2
The Inheritance
1962
8.4
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961
8.2
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
1959
8.1
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
6.8
Black River
1957
7.0
I Will Buy You
1956
7.1
The Thick-Walled Room
1956
5.8
Fountainhead
1956
6.6
Beautiful Days
1955
6.0
Three Loves
1954
6.0
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
1954
6.3
Sincere Heart
1953
6.6
Youth of the Son
1952Television
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