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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 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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  • 61.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In Japan

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).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

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).

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Filmography

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