Masaki Kobayashi
(1916-1996)
Japanese film director
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Masaki Kobayashi (小林 正樹, Kobayashi Masaki; February 14, 1916 – October 4, 1996) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, best known for the epic trilogy The Human Condition (1959–1961), the samurai films Harakiri (1962) and Samurai Rebellion (1967), and the horror anthology Kwaidan (1964). Senses of Cinema described him as "one of the finest depicters of Japanese society in the 1950s and 1960s."
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14 February 1916 Otaru, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan
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| Died |
4 October 1996 (aged 80) Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
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| Zodiac | Aquarius |
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