Directing • AGE 80
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 whic...


Unification of Japan 62
2024

Final Approach
Executive Producer
2004

Dora-heita
Screenplay
2000

Masaki Kobayashi on 'The Human Condition'
Self
1993

The Empty Table
Director
1985

Tokyo Trial
Director
1983

Glowing Autumn
Director
1978

The Fossil
Director
1975

Fossil
Director
1972

Inn of Evil
Director
1971

Dodes'ka-den
Executive Producer
1970

Hymn to a Tired Man
Director
1968

Samurai Rebellion
Director
1967

Tokyo Olympiad
Thanks
1965

Kwaidan
Director
1965

Harakiri
Director
1962

The Inheritance
Director
1962

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Screenplay
1961

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Producer
1959

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Director
1959

The Human Condition
Creator
1959

Black River
Director
1957

I Will Buy You
Director
1956

The Thick-Walled Room
Director
1956

Fountainhead
Director
1956

Beautiful Days
Director
1955

Three Loves
Director
1954

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Director
1954

Sincere Heart
Director
1953

Youth of the Son
Director
1952

Carmen Comes Home
Assistant Director
1951

Broken Drum
Screenplay
1949

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Assistant Director
1949

Apostasy
Assistant Director
1948

The Portrait
Assistant Director
1948

The Revenge Champion
Screenplay
1931