Masaki Kobayashi
出生 : 1916-02-14, Otaru, Hokkaidō, Japan
死亡 : 1996-10-04
略歴
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 which has a surprise ending.
Kobayashi also directed The Human Condition, a trilogy on the effects of World War II on a Japanese pacifist and socialist. The total length of the films is over 9 hours. Other notable films include Harakiri (1962) and Samurai Rebellion (1967). Harakiri won him an award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, solidifying his place in the history of cinema.
In 1969, he was a member of the jury at the 19th Berlin International Film Festival.
He was also a candidate for directing the Japanese sequences for Tora! Tora! Tora!, once Akira Kurosawa left the film. But instead Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda were chosen.
Kobayashi, himself a pacifist, was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, but refused to fight and refused promotion to a rank higher than private.
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Screenplay
或る小藩。ここでは、町奉行が不明瞭な辞職を繰り返していた。そんな矢先、江戸から望月小平太なる新任がやってくる。ところが、その男には振る舞いの不埒さから“どら平太”という渾名がついていた。実際、着任する筈の期日を10日も過ぎても、彼は奉行所に出仕しない始末なのだ。しかし、それはどら平太本人が友人で大目付の仙波義十郎に頼んで、わざと流させた悪評であった。実は、彼は密輸、売春、賭博、殺傷などが横行する「壕外」と呼ばれる治外法権と化した地域の浄化にやってきたのだ。
Self
In this 1993 video interview, filmed for the Directors Guild of Japan at Tokyo’s Haiyuza Theatre, director Masaki Kobayashi talks to fellow filmmaker and longtime Kobayashi admirer Masahiro Shinoda (DOUBLE SUICIDE) about THE HUMAN CONDITION.
Screenplay
This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to a Japanese family when one of their sons shames them in front of the entire nation.
Director
This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to a Japanese family when one of their sons shames them in front of the entire nation.
Writer
太平洋戦争敗戦後の日本の進路を運命づけた極東国際軍事裁判の模様を記録し、裁判から25年後に公開されたアメリカ国防総省の50万フィートにも及ぶ長大なフィルムを、5年の歳月をかけて編集して製作した長編ドキュメンタリー映画。
Director
太平洋戦争敗戦後の日本の進路を運命づけた極東国際軍事裁判の模様を記録し、裁判から25年後に公開されたアメリカ国防総省の50万フィートにも及ぶ長大なフィルムを、5年の歳月をかけて編集して製作した長編ドキュメンタリー映画。
Director
A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer. Lecherous Saburi Shin knows what she wants, and is able to produce it for her.
Director
仕事一筋だった一鬼建設社長の一鬼太治平は、初めて仕事を離れヨーロッパの周遊旅行に出る。途中、一鬼は体の異変に気づき、医者に診てもらう。数日後、判明した結果は癌だった。しかも、あと一年の命だった…。
Director
The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers to), the head-quarters of a group of smugglers, with stolen money intended to ransom his loved one who is forced to work in a brothel.
Executive Producer
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
Director
Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming.
Director
「怪談」の小林正樹監督が三船敏郎と初タッグを組み、1967年・第28回ベネチア国際映画祭で国際映画批評家連盟賞を受賞した時代劇。同監督作「切腹」の原作小説「異聞浪人記」で知られる滝口康彦の短編小説「拝領妻始末」をもとに橋本忍が脚色を手がけ、武家社会の非人間性を描く。会津松平藩馬廻り役の笹原伊三郎は、主君・松平正容の側室いちを長男・与五郎の妻に拝領するよう命じられる。息子の幸福な結婚を願う伊三郎は断ろうとするが、藩命に背くことはできず受け入れることに。望んだ結婚ではなかったものの、与五郎といちの間には愛情が芽生え、子どもにも恵まれる。しかし正容の嫡子が急死したことから、新たな世継ぎとなった菊千代の生母であるいちを大奥へ返上するよう命令が下される。
Thanks
1964年10月10日。聖火ランナーが満場の国立競技場に到着すると、第18回夏季オリンピックが開会する。短距離走、走高跳、砲丸投、棒高跳、走幅跳、体操、水泳、ウエイトリフティング、レスリング、柔道、射撃、自転車競技、“東洋の魔女”と呼ばれる全日本チームが活躍した女子バレーボールなど、白熱した名勝負の数々に、世界中から集まった観客が歓声を上げる。
Director
「黒髪」：妻を捨て、京都から遠い任地へと赴いた武士。そこで彼は、良い家柄の娘と結婚するが、彼女は冷酷な女で、男は今さら、別れた妻のことを思い出すのだった。やがて任期を終え、京都に戻った彼は最初の妻と再会するが…。「雪女」：きこりの巳之吉は、森へ薪を採りに入ったところで吹雪に遭い、山小屋に閉じ込められるはめに。その晩彼は、雪女の姿を目の当たりにし…。ほかに「耳無し抱一の話」「茶碗の中」の計4編。
Director
彦根藩井伊家の上屋敷に津雲半四郎と名乗る浪人が現れ「切腹のためお庭拝借」と申し出た。生活に困窮した浪人が「切腹する」と言っては、庭や玄関を汚されたくない人々から金品を巻き上げることが流行っており、家老の斎藤勘解由は数ヶ月前にやってきた千々岩求女という浪人の話を始めた。家老が切腹の場を設けてやると言い出すと、求女は狼狽したあげく、竹光で腹を切った上に舌を噛んで絶命した、と。話を聞いた半四郎は、求女は自分の娘婿であることを告げた。
Producer
On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown to his family and colleagues. A bevy of lawyers and associates scheme to procure the money for themselves, enlisting the aid of impostors and blackmail.
Director
On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown to his family and colleagues. A bevy of lawyers and associates scheme to procure the money for themselves, enlisting the aid of impostors and blackmail.
Producer
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
Screenplay
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
Director
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
Producer
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
Screenplay
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
Director
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
Screenplay
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Director
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Director
The story follows a university student who moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.
Director
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
Director
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
Director
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
Director
Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.
Writer
In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another boy who works in a brewery. Heita also finds solace in the village pastor Yasugi and his teacher Michiko, but they too have problems of their own.
Director
In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another boy who works in a brewery. Heita also finds solace in the village pastor Yasugi and his teacher Michiko, but they too have problems of their own.
Director
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
Director
A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.
Director
The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.
Assistant Director
A girl who'd left her hometown for the exciting adventure of the big city returns home years later for a visit, soon somehow causing scandal.
Assistant Director
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.
Screenplay
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.
Assistant Director
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.
Assistant Director
A teacher at a Japanese school tries to hide his outcast upbringing.
Assistant Director
The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.
Screenplay
Lost film, directed by Tomu Uchida. This film is a very funny comedy that makes fun of the moral code of the samurai Bushido, which has become obsolete and turned into an empty form during the period of feudalism.
