Masaki Kobayashi Movies
- 1965

Kwaidan
Kwaidan7.71965HD
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...
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- 1959

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love8.11959HD
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...
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- 1954

Three Loves
Three Loves61954HD
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...
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- 1962

The Inheritance
The Inheritance7.21962HD
A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown, so a bevy of lawyers and...
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- 1959

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity8.21959HD
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...
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- 2000

Dora-heita
Dora-heita5.12000HD
A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own...
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- 1961

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer8.41961HD
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old...
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- 1983

Tokyo Trial
Tokyo Trial6.81983HD
One of the major documentaries on a specific chapter in modern Japanese history, this look at the trial of Japanese militarists accused of war crimes...
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- 1956

The Thick-Walled Room
The Thick-Walled Room7.11956HD
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...
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- 1957

Black River
Black River6.81957HD
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...
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- 1951

Carmen Comes Home
Carmen Comes Home6.141951HD
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.
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- 1965

Tokyo Olympiad
Tokyo Olympiad7.731965HD
This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive...
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- 1971

Inn of Evil
Inn of Evil61971HD
The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an...
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- 1962

Harakiri
Harakiri8.4351962HD
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find...
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- 1970

Dodes'ka-den
Dodes'ka-den71970HD
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a...
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- 1956

I Will Buy You
I Will Buy You71956HD
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
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- 1975

The Fossil
The Fossil6.81975HD
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...
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- 1931

The Revenge Champion
The Revenge Champion01931HD
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...
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- 1954

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky61954HD
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.
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- 2024

Unification of Japan 62
Unification of Japan 6202024HD
Nao (Ayano Nishikawa), wife of Ota (Ryota Matsushima) from the Kamome Victims Association, is abducted by the World Kamome Church. Tamura (Yoshiyuki...
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