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Masaki Kobayashi

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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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Born
14 Feb 1916
Died
4 Oct 1996 (aged 80)
Production Places
Japan

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ACMI Identifier

24749

Wikidata

Q445807

VIAF

12501175

LOC Auth

no95055912

WorldCat

lccn-no95055912

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