Masaki Kobayashi
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Masaki Kobayashi (1906 – October 4, 1996), a Japanese film director best known for the epic trilogy The Human Condition (1959-1961), Harakiri (1962) and Samurai Rebellion (1967), and the horror film Kwaidan (1964).
Early life
Kobayashi was born in Otaru and then a tiny port on the island of Hokkaido, the son of a company worker. He was Kinuyo Tanaka's second cousin. He studied East Asian art and philosophy at Waseda University in Tokyo in 1933. In 1941, he began working as an apprentice at Shochiku Studios, but in January 1942, he was recruited into the Imperial Japanese Army and sent to Manchuria.
Kobayashi regarded himself as both a pacifist and a socialist, but resisted by refusing to promote to a higher position than average. He was moved to Miyakojima, one of the Ryuku Islands, in 1944, and was taken prisoner near the end of the war. In Okinawa, then spent a year in a detention camp. He returned to Shochiku as an assistant to director Keisuke Kinoshita after his release in 1946.
Kobayashi's debut as an actor was in 1952 with Musuko no Seishun (My Son's Youth).
Kobayashi's Human Condition (1959-1961), a series on the effects of World War II on a Japanese pacifist and socialist, spanning 1959 to 1961. The films' total length is almost ten hours, making it one of the longest fiction films ever made for theatrical release.
He produced Harakiri, which received the Jury Prize at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.
Kobayashi created Kwaidan (1964), his first color film, a series of four ghost tales adapted from books by Lafcadio Hearn. At the 1965 Cannes Film Festival, Kwaidan received a National Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Akira Kurosawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Kon Ichikawa, and Kobayashi formed Shiki no kai-The Four Horsemen Club in 1968 in an attempt to make films for younger generations.
He appeared at the 19th Berlin International Film Festival in 1969 as a member of the jury.
He was also a candidate for directing Tora's Japanese sequences!Tora!
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Akira Kurosawa had to leave the film after Akira Kurosawa stopped it. Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda were both selected, but Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda were omitted.One of his grand projects, Tun Huang, was a film about Yasushi Inoue's book about Buddhist China, which never came to fruition.