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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...
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  • Masaki Kobayashi was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer who has directed twenty films in a career spanning 33 years. He is best known...
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  •  'Ghost Stories') is a 1964 Japanese anthology horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese...
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    is a Japanese film actor. He was featured in 11 films directed by Masaki Kobayashi, including The Human Condition trilogy, wherein he starred as the lead...
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  • The Human Condition (film series) (category Films directed by Masaki Kobayashi)
    trilogy of Japanese epic war drama films co-written and directed by Masaki Kobayashi, based on the novel of the same name by Junpei Gomikawa. The films...
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    helplessness of the peasantry and the distinction between the two classes. Masaki Kobayashi directed the films Harakiri and Samurai Rebellion, both cynical films...
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  • War on Geminar, Tenchi Universe, Tenchi in Tokyo, and Ai Tenchi Muyo!. Masaki Kajishima and Hiroki Hayashi, who both worked on the Bubblegum Crisis OVAs...
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  • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (category Films directed by Masaki Kobayashi)
    (第一部 純愛篇/第二部 激怒篇) is a 1959 Japanese epic war drama film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It is the first part of The Human Condition trilogy. In World War...
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  • Harakiri (1962 film) (category Films directed by Masaki Kobayashi)
    Harakiri (切腹, Seppuku) is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. The story takes place between 1619 and 1630 during the Edo period...
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    insects. It was later used as the basis for a 1964 film, Kwaidan, by Masaki Kobayashi. Hearn declares in his introduction to the first edition of the book...
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  • director and manga artist Kiyoshi Kobayashi (小林 清志, born 1933), Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator Masaki Kobayashi (小林 正樹, 1916–1996), Japanese film...
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  • Nagisa Ōshima 1962: Pitfall, Hiroshi Teshigahara 1962: Harakiri, Masaki Kobayashi 1963: She and He, Susumu Hani 1963: The Insect Woman, Shōhei Imamura...
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  • a university. Masaki Kobayashi (小林 昌樹, Kobayashi Masaki) Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda (Japanese); John Gremillion (English) Masaki Kobayashi is a current bartender...
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    many significant directors including Kinji Fukasaku, Shōhei Imamura, Masaki Kobayashi, Masahiro Shinoda, Hayao Miyazaki, and Takashi Miike. Several of his...
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  • The Thick-Walled Room (category Films directed by Masaki Kobayashi)
    (壁あつき部屋, Kabe atsuki heya) is a 1953 Japanese war drama film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. The film was completed in 1953, but not released before 1956. A group...
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  • series), a film trilogy based on Gomikawa's novel and directed by Masaki Kobayashi The Human Condition (TV series), Korean TV program The Human Condition...
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    later generations of Japanese film-makers ranging from Kon Ichikawa, Masaki Kobayashi, Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura to Juzo Itami, Takeshi Kitano and...
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  • with Miike on his 2010 film 13 Assassins. The film is a 3D remake of Masaki Kobayashi's 1962 film Harakiri. It premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival...
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  • Japanese attorney Masaki Kobayashi (1916–1996), Japanese film director Masaki Kyomoto (born 1959), Japanese singer-songwriter and actor Masaki Liu, American...
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    Toho. She worked for directors such as Mikio Naruse, Yasujirō Ozu and Masaki Kobayashi, appearing in films like The Human Condition, The End of Summer, Kwaidan...
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  • A Soldier's Prayer (category Films directed by Masaki Kobayashi)
    Prayer (人間の條件 完結篇) is a 1961 Japanese film co-written and directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It is the third part of The Human Condition trilogy. The Japanese...
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  • production company with three other Japanese directors; Keisuke Kinoshita, Masaki Kobayashi, and Kon Ichikawa. It was their first and only production. It marks...
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  • I Will Buy You (category Films directed by Masaki Kobayashi)
    (あなた買います, Anata kaimasu) is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. Kishimoto is a talent scout for the Toyo Flowers baseball club, one...
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  • 150 min (2 hr, 30 min) The Human Condition 574 min (9 hr, 34 min) Masaki Kobayashi 1959–61 3 191 min (3 hr, 11 min) Dekalog 572 min (9 hr, 32 min) Krzysztof...
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  • Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky Harakiri (1962 film), a Japanese film by Masaki Kobayashi "Hara-Kiri: Murder", a 1974 episode of the US television series Hawaii...
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  • actress who has appeared in films of Yasujirō Ozu, Keisuke Kinoshita, Masaki Kobayashi and most frequently of Masahiro Shinoda, her husband. Iwashita was...
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  • Hepburn romanization system is spelled kaidan. When film director Masaki Kobayashi made his anthology film Kwaidan (1964) from Hearn's translated tales...
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  • Kon Ichikawa Credited alongside Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, and Masaki Kobayashi. Based on the novel Diary of a Town Magistrate by Shuguro Yamamoto...
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    "loner" directors such as Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, Akira Kurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi and Taiwanese New Wave director Hou Hsiao-hsien. The company was founded...
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    the works of many directors, including Robert Altman, Ron Howard, Masaki Kobayashi, Akira Kurosawa, John Lasseter, David Lynch, John Milius, Martin Scorsese...
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