FILM DIRECTOR

Masaki Kobayashi

1916 - 1996

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Masaki Kobayashi is the 151st most popular film director (up from 166th in 2019), the 178th most popular biography from Japan (down from 174th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Film Director.

Masaki Kobayashi is most famous for his films about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Masaki Kobayashi ranks 151 out of 2,041. Before him are Jim Jarmusch, Nikita Mikhalkov, Wong Kar-wai, Ang Lee, Robert Benton, and Erich von Stroheim. After him are Alexander Dovzhenko, Lasse Hallström, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marcel Carné, Moustapha Akkad, and Don Siegel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Masaki Kobayashi ranks 41. Before him are Natalia Ginzburg, Abdul Rahman Arif, Robert F. Furchgott, Bernard Lewis, Emil Gilels, and Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal. After him are Virginia Satir, Marcel Cerdan, Peter Weiss, Peter Finch, Amha Selassie, and C. Wright Mills. Among people deceased in 1996, Masaki Kobayashi ranks 40. Before him are Abdus Salam, Claudette Colbert, Lars Ahlfors, Andreas Papandreou, Geoffrey Wilkinson, and Fujiko Fujio. After him are Marcel Carné, António de Spínola, Helmut Schön, George Davis Snell, Alain Poher, and Martin Balsam.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masaki Kobayashi ranks 178 out of 6,245. Before him are Teiichi Matsumaru (1909), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Emperor Kōtoku (596), Fujiko Fujio (1934), Fumimaro Konoe (1891), and Hiroto Muraoka (1931). After him are Yasuo Suzuki (1913), Emperor Kōgen (-272), Akira Yoshizawa (1911), Emperor Tenji (626), Okita Sōji (1842), and Iwane Matsui (1878).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Masaki Kobayashi ranks 7. Before him are Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Akira Kurosawa (1910), Isao Takahata (1935), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), and Kenji Mizoguchi (1898). After him are Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Nagisa Oshima (1932), Shohei Imamura (1926), Mamoru Oshii (1951), Hideaki Anno (1960), and Satoshi Kon (1963).

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