Masaki Kobayashi

Masaki Kobayashi 小林 正樹 Kobayashi Masaki February 14 1916 October 4 1996 was a Japanese filmmaker He is best remembered for directing the epic war trilogy The Human Condition 19591961 the samurai films Harakiri 1962 and Samurai Rebellion 1967 and the horror anthology epic Kwaidan 1964 Senses of Cinema described him as one of the finest depicters of Japanese society in the 1950s and 1960s Although overshadowed by other Japanese filmmakers like Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirō Ozu in his lifetime his work has gained wider traction in the 21st century with several of his films being ranked as some of the greatest films ever made Description above from the Wikipedia article Masaki Kobayashi licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia