Kobayashi Masaki

Name: Kobayashi Masaki
Native name: 小林正樹
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Male
Born: February 14, 1916
Died: October 4, 1996

Masaki Kobayashi was a Japanese film director, best known for the epic trilogy The Human Condition (1959–1961), the samurai film Seppuku (1962), and Ghost Stories (1964).

Kobayashi studied ancient oriental arts and philosophy. Kobayashi embarked on a career in film in 1941 when he entered Shochiku Studios as an apprentice director, but his career was almost immediately interrupted when he was drafted into the army and sent to Manchuria.

Kobayashi regarded himself as a pacifist. His way of resisting was to refuse promotion to a rank higher than private. He spent time as a prisoner of war in an Okinawa camp. After his release, in 1946, he returned to Shochiku as assistant to the director Keisuke Kinoshita.

Kobayashi was a second cousin of the actress and director Kinuyo Tanaka. Edit Biography

Year	Title	Type	Rating
2000	Dora-heita	Movie	6.5
1949	A Broken Drum	Movie	6.0

Year	Title	Type	Rating
1975	Fossil	Movie	7.0
1971	Inn of Evil	Movie	7.4
1968	Hymn to a Tired Man	Movie	6.0
1967	Samurai Rebellion	Movie	8.1
1964	Kwaidan	Movie	7.7
1962	Harakiri	Movie	8.3
1962	The Inheritance	Movie	7.2
1957	Kuroi Kawa	Movie	7.1
1956	Anata Kaimasu	Movie	6.9
1956	Fountainhead	Movie	6.0
1956	The Thick-Walled Room	Movie	7.7
1955	Beautiful Days	Movie	0.0
1954	Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky	Movie	7.4
1953	It Springs In My Heart	Movie	6.0
1952	Youth of the Son	Movie	0.0

Year	Title	Type	Rating
1985	Family Without a Dinner Table	Movie	8.0
1983	Tokyo Trial	Movie	0.0
1961	The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer	Movie	8.4
1959	The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity	Movie	8.1
1959	The Human Condition I: No Greater Love	Movie	8.2
1954	Three Loves	Movie	0.0