Masaki Kobayashi

Masaki Kobayashi was born on 14 February 1916 in Otaru, in Hokkaidō. A graduate of Waseda in 1941, where he had studied Oriental art under the poet and historian Aizu Yaichi, he joined Shōchiku the same year, but was mobilised in 1942 and did not return until 1946. After the war, he made, among other films, a ghost film that won a prize at Cannes and a long documentary on the Tokyo trial, released in 1983. He died in Tokyo on 4 October 1996.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaThe Human Condition人間の條件Masaki Kobayashi · 1959Cinema
• CinemaHarakiri切腹Masaki Kobayashi · 1962Cinema