Masaki Kobayashi was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer who has directed twenty films in a career spanning 33 years. He is best known for The Human Condition Trilogy, the Academy Award–nominated horror film Kwaidan and the jidaigeki films Harakiri and Samurai Rebellion.[1][2]
Masaki Kobayashi | |
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| Occupation | Film director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| No. | Title | Year of release | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Youth of the Son | 1952 | Musuko no seishun |
| 2. | Sincere Heart | 1953 | Magokoro |
| 3. | Three Loves | 1954 | Mittsu no ai |
| 4. | Somewhere Under The Broad Sky | 1954 | Kono hiroi sora no dokoka ni |
| 5. | Beautiful Days | 1955 | Uruwashiki saigetsu |
| 6. | The Thick-Walled Room | 1956 (completed in 1953) | Kabe atsuki heya |
| 7. | Fountainhead (also known as The Spring) | 1956 | Izumi |
| 8. | I Will Buy You | 1956 | Anata kaimasu |
| 9. | Black River | 1957 | Kuroi kawa |
| 10. | The Human Condition Film Series: 1. No Greater Love 2. Road to Eternity 3. A Soldier's Prayer |
1959 1959 1961 |
Ningen no jōken |
| 11. | The Inheritance | 1962 | Karami-ai |
| 12. | Harakiri | 1962 | Seppuku |
| 13. | Kwaidan | 1964 | Kaidan |
| 14. | Samurai Rebellion | 1967 | Jōi-uchi: Hairyō-tsuma shimatsu |
| 15. | Hymn to a Tired Man | 1968 | Nihon no seishun |
| 16. | Inn of Evil | 1971 | Inōchi bō ni furō |
| 17. | The Fossil | 1972 | Kaseki |
| 18. | Growing Autumn | 1979 | Moeruaki |
| 19. | Tokyo Trial | 1983 | Tōkyō Saiban |
| 20. | Family Without a Dinner Table (also known as The Empty Table) | 1985 | Shokutaku no Nai Ie |
| No. | Title | Year of Release | Original Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Portrait | 1948 | Shōzō |
| 2. | Apostasy | 1948 | Hakai |
| 3. | The Yotsuda-Phantom (uncredited) | 1949 | Shinshaku Yotsuya kaidan |
| 4. | Broken Drum | 1949 | Yabure daiko |
| 5. | Carmen Comes Home | 1951 | Karumen kokyō ni kaeru |
| 6. | Fireworks Over the Sea | 1951 | Umi no hanabi |