1916 - 1996
Masaki Kobayashi (小林 正樹, Kobayashi Masaki, February 14, 1916 – October 4, 1996) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, best known for the epic trilogy The Human Condition (1959–1961), the samurai films Harakiri (1962) and Samurai Rebellion (1967), and the horror anthology Kwaidan (1964). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masaki Kobayashi has received more than 443,451 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Masaki Kobayashi is the 166th most popular film director (up from 180th in 2019), the 154th most popular biography from Japan (up from 176th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Film Director.
Masaki Kobayashi is most famous for his films about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Among film directors, Masaki Kobayashi ranks 166 out of 1,581. Before him are Sergio Corbucci, Volker Schlöndorff, Guillermo del Toro, Jacques Rivette, Nagisa Oshima, and William Friedkin. After him are Alexander Dovzhenko, Jonathan Demme, Kathryn Bigelow, Bille August, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Jesús Franco.
1926 - 1990
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 160
1939 - Present
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 161
1964 - Present
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 162
1928 - 2016
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 163
1932 - 2013
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 164
1935 - 2023
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 165
1916 - 1996
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 166
1894 - 1956
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 167
1944 - 2017
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 168
1951 - Present
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 169
1948 - Present
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 170
1963 - Present
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 171
1930 - 2013
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 172
Among people born in 1916, Masaki Kobayashi ranks 43. Before him are Emil Gilels, Raf Vallone, Alexander Prokhorov, Robert F. Furchgott, Paul Keres, and Sune Bergström. After him are P. W. Botha, Dino Risi, Maria Altmann, Michael Gough, Jacque Fresco, and Ephraim Katzir. Among people deceased in 1996, Masaki Kobayashi ranks 35. Before him are Magda Schneider, Timothy Leary, Andreas Papandreou, Odysseas Elytis, Nevill Francis Mott, and Abdus Salam. After him are António de Spínola, Ademir de Menezes, Claudette Colbert, Victor Ambartsumian, George Davis Snell, and Helmut Schön.
1916 - 1985
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 37
1916 - 2002
HPI: 61.94
Rank: 38
1916 - 2002
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 39
1916 - 2009
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 40
1916 - 1975
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 41
1916 - 2004
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 42
1916 - 1996
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 43
1916 - 2006
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 44
1916 - 2008
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 45
1916 - 2011
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 46
1916 - 2011
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 47
1916 - 2017
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 48
1916 - 2009
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 49
1909 - 1996
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 29
1920 - 1996
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 30
1919 - 1996
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 31
1911 - 1996
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 32
1905 - 1996
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 33
1926 - 1996
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 34
1916 - 1996
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 35
1910 - 1996
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 36
1922 - 1996
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 37
1903 - 1996
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 38
1908 - 1996
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 39
1903 - 1996
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 40
1915 - 1996
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 41
Among people born in Japan, Masaki Kobayashi ranks 154 out of 6,048. Before him are Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835), Tokugawa Hidetada (1579), Masanobu Fukuoka (1913), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797), Nagisa Oshima (1932), and Yasuo Fukuda (1936). After him are Arata Isozaki (1931), Emperor Sujin (-147), Shigeru Miyamoto (1952), Shigeru Yoshida (1878), Fujiko Fujio (1934), and Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604).
1835 - 1901
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 148
1579 - 1632
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 149
1913 - 2008
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 150
1797 - 1861
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 151
1932 - 2013
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 152
1936 - Present
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 153
1916 - 1996
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 154
1931 - 2022
HPI: 61.59
Rank: 155
147 BC - 29 BC
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 156
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 157
1878 - 1967
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 158
1934 - Present
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 159
1604 - 1651
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 160
Among film directors born in Japan, Masaki Kobayashi ranks 8. Before him are Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Isao Takahata (1935), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), and Nagisa Oshima (1932). After him are Shohei Imamura (1926), Hideaki Anno (1960), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Ishirō Honda (1911), Mikio Naruse (1905), and Satoshi Kon (1963).
1941 - Present
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 2
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 3
1935 - 2018
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 4
1903 - 1963
HPI: 67.32
Rank: 5
1898 - 1956
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 6
1932 - 2013
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 7
1916 - 1996
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 8
1926 - 2006
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 9
1960 - Present
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 10
1920 - 1989
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 11
1911 - 1993
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 12
1905 - 1969
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 13
1963 - 2010
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 14