Masaki Kobayashi

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Born: 14 February 1916 Died: 4 October 1996

Country of origin: Japan

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Listal's 100 best Directors (The Results) (100 items)
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Published 13 years ago

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Directors:The Filmography of... (207 items)
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Published 13 years, 2 months ago

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Greatest People (76 items)
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Published 11 years, 5 months ago

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My favorite film of my favorite directors (215 items)
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Published 9 years, 2 months ago

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Directors to follow or discover (64 items)
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Published 12 years ago

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Description: Kobayashi studied ancient oriental arts and philosophy. Kobayashi embarked on a career in film in 1941 when he entered Shochiku Studios as an apprentice director, but his career was almost immediately interrupted when he was drafted into the army and sent to Manchuria. Kobayashi regarded himself as a pacifist. His way of resisting was to refuse promotion to a rank higher than private. He spent time as a prisoner of war in an Okinawa camp. After his release, in 1946, he returned to Shochiku as assistant to the director Keisuke Kinoshita. ... (more)

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