Masaki Kobayashi Movies

  • 1968
    Hymn to a Tired Man

    Hymn to a Tired Man

    Hymn to a Tired Man

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    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.

    Hymn to a Tired Man
  • 1953
    Sincere Heart

    Sincere Heart

    Sincere Heart

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    A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

    Sincere Heart
  • 1949
    Broken Drum

    Broken Drum

    Broken Drum

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    When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

    Broken Drum
  • 1975
    The Fossil

    The Fossil

    The Fossil

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    An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes...

    The Fossil
  • 1948
    The Portrait

    The Portrait

    The Portrait

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    The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

    The Portrait
  • 1952
    Youth of the Son

    Youth of the Son

    Youth of the Son

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    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.

    Youth of the Son
  • 1956
    Fountainhead

    Fountainhead

    Fountainhead

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    A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

    Fountainhead
  • 1954
    Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

    Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

    Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

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    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.

    Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
  • 1978
    Glowing Autumn

    Glowing Autumn

    Glowing Autumn

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    A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer....

    Glowing Autumn
  • 1931
    The Revenge Champion

    The Revenge Champion

    The Revenge Champion

    01931HD

    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...

    The Revenge Champion
  • 1954
    Three Loves

    Three Loves

    Three Loves

    61954HD

    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...

    Three Loves
  • 1993
    Masaki Kobayashi on 'The Human Condition'

    Masaki Kobayashi on 'The Human Condition'

    Masaki Kobayashi on 'The Human Condition'

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    In this 1993 video interview, filmed for the Directors Guild of Japan at Tokyo’s Haiyuza Theatre, director Masaki Kobayashi talks to fellow...

    Masaki Kobayashi on 'The Human Condition'