FILM DIRECTOR

Masaki Kobayashi

1916 - 1996

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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 482,340 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Masaki Kobayashi is the 166th most popular film director, the 174th most popular biography from Japan (down from 154th 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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  • 480k

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  • 62.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Masaki Kobayashi ranks 166 out of 2,041. Before him are Kim Ki-duk, Sergio Corbucci, Andrei Konchalovsky, Josef von Sternberg, Bille August, and Jan Švankmajer. After him are Joel Schumacher, Abel Gance, István Szabó, Max Ophüls, Guillermo del Toro, and Roy Andersson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Masaki Kobayashi ranks 44. Before him are Bernard Lewis, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Jean Dausset, Marcel Cerdan, Peter Finch, and P. W. Botha. After him are Virginia Satir, Emil Gilels, Robert F. Furchgott, C. Wright Mills, Raf Vallone, and Jacque Fresco. Among people deceased in 1996, Masaki Kobayashi ranks 34. Before him are René Clément, Odysseas Elytis, Ademir de Menezes, Solomon Asch, Andreas Papandreou, and Gladwyn Jebb. After him are Nicu Ceaușescu, Mohammad Najibullah, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Victor Ambartsumian, William Vickrey, and António de Spínola.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masaki Kobayashi ranks 174 out of 6,245. Before him are Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Junichiro Koizumi (1942), Emperor Suinin (-69), Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918), Syukuro Manabe (1931), and Yasuo Fukuda (1936). After him are Masanobu Fukuoka (1913), Arata Isozaki (1931), Yohji Yamamoto (1943), Imagawa Yoshimoto (1519), Taira no Kiyomori (1118), and Emperor Momozono (1741).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Masaki Kobayashi ranks 8. Before him are Akira Kurosawa (1910), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), Isao Takahata (1935), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), and Shohei Imamura (1926). After him are Nagisa Oshima (1932), Hirokazu Kore-eda (1962), Hideaki Anno (1960), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Makoto Shinkai (1973), and Mamoru Oshii (1951).

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