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	Midnight Eye review: Kwaidan (Kaidan, 1965, director: Masaki KOBAYASHI)
		Kobayashi, who frames the story in the Meiji period where it is in the process of being written, adds his own suggestion, and by doing so claims authorial control over the work.
		This is partly true in Kobayashi's case, where the extra production values have resulted in a cornucopia of stunning creativity, albeit one that avoids the kind of explicit social critiques found in the vast majority of his films, most notably his masterpiece Harakiri (1962).
		Kobayashi deserves to be forgiven for this one digression from politics and into the realms of pure fantasy and form, the result of which is, after all, a magnificent and perhaps unparalleled visual achievement.
	www.midnighteye.com /reviews/kwaidan.shtml (1990 words)

	Masaki Kobayashi - Films as director:
		Niogret, Hubert and Eithne O'Neill, "Masaki Kobayashi," in Positif (Paris), December 1993.
		Kaji is the archetypal Kobayashi hero, who protests, struggles, and is finally killed by an oppressive and inhumane system.
		In these films Kobayashi turned the conventions of the jidai-geki (period movie) genre to his own ends, using historical settings to universalize his focus on the dissident individual.
	www.filmreference.com /Directors-Jo-Ku/Kobayashi-Masaki.html (1081 words)

	Harakiri Page
		Masaki Kobayashi is considered one of the great cinematic masters of the Japanese immediate post-war era, a generation overshadowed by the towering presence of Akira Kurosawa.
		Kobayashi worked as an assistant for a mere eight months before he was drafted and sent to the front in Manchuria.
		Kobayashi died in of a heart attack in 1996.
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/jfilm/seppuku.html (863 words)

	DVD Verdict: Masaki Kobayashi (1916-1996)
		Masaki Kobayashi (we will use the western spelling convention for clarity's sake) is one of Japan's most notable directors.
		Although Kobayashi is not as well known abroad as some other Japanese directors, his critical reputation is based on his uncompromising scrutiny of personal responsibility and his desire to expose the uncomfortable truths about social corruption.
		Kobayashi was likely drawn to the material because it parallels his own wartime experiences: a young film studio assistant, the pacifistic Kobayashi was drafted into the army in 1942.
	www.dvdverdict.com /columns/deepfocus/kobayashi.shtml (1653 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Masaki Kobayashi : Biography
		Masaki Kobayashi is considered one of the great cinematic masters of the Japanese immediate post-war era, a generation overshadowed by the towering presence of
		Kobayashi switched back and forth between the Kinoshita style of domestic dramas and the darker socially minded works until he garnered international acclaim and a prestigious San Giorgio prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1960 for his Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1958), the first installment of sweeping trilogy about the war.
		Kobayashi died in of a heart attack in 1996.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/86355/bio.jhtml (705 words)

	Film Listings Archive: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi died in October, at the age of 80.
		Kobayashi, with Kurosawa, Kinoshita and Ichikawa, was one of the leading luminaries of the new generation of Japanese filmmakers that emerged in the postwar period.
		His work is known for its humanist, fiercely anti-war and anti-militarist stance, and for its epic scale and superb use of widescreen.
	www.cinematheque.bc.ca /archives/kobay.html (394 words)

	La Condition de l'homme - Masaki Kobayashi - Test DVD Z2 Carlotta - Dvdclassik
		Kobayashi est en 1957, année où il débute l’adaptation du roman, un tout jeune réalisateur.
		Kobayashi voit dans le roman fleuve de Junpei Gomikawa (publié entre 1956 et 1958 en six volumes, qui deviennent à l’écran trois parties elles-mêmes divisées en deux segments) l’occasion de réaliser une œuvre totale sur le sujet, un pamphlet à même de porter haut et fort sa voix humaniste et contestataire.
		Kobayashi excelle, plus que dans un récit qui peu parfois se révéler assez manichéen, à nous restituer des gestes et des visages d’un côté, des paysages de l’autre, les rapports qui lient l’homme au monde.
	www.dvdclassik.com /Critiques/Condition-Homme-Kobayashi-dvd.htm (3768 words)

	Masaki Kobayashi - Biography - Moviefone
		Masaki Kobayashi is considered one of the great cinematic masters of the Japanese immediate post-war era, a generation overshadowed by the towering presence of Akira Kurosawa.
		Kobayashi worked as an assistant for a mere eight months before he was drafted and sent to the front in Manchuria.
		In the fall of 1946, Kobayashi returned to Shochiku and served for six years as an assistant director under Keisuke Kinoshita.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/masaki-kobayashi/97736/biography (697 words)

	Masaki Kobayashi - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Masaki Kobayashi - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Masaki Kobayashi (1916-1996), Japanese director of intense, elegant films with a strong humanist theme.
		Japanese Film Masters Masaki Kobayashi and Toru Takemitsu In Memoriam.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Masaki_Kobayashi.html (174 words)

	Masaki Kobayashi - Overview - MSN Movies
		Biography:"Masaki Kobayashi" is considered one of the great cinematic masters of the Japanese immediate post-war era, a generation overshadowed by the towering presence of "Akira Kurosawa".
		No one of that generation of filmmakers was affected quite as strongly by the war as Kobayashi.
		His most acclaimed films are unflinching explorations into the dark side of Japanese culture, the side that drove men to commit gory suicide for the name of honor and commit horrific atrocities in the name of the Emperor.
	entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?c=105671 (167 words)

	Masaki Kobayashi
		By illustrating the class stratification and imposed social conformity fostered by the Tokugawa shogunate (1600-1867) as a means of retaining and centralizing authority, Kobayashi presents a harrowing indictment of the ingrained cultural legacy of coercive, outmoded rituals, chauvinism, and blind obedience that resulted in the inhumanity and senseless tragedy of the Pacific War.
		But soon, fortune would turn against the Sasahara family, as Lord Matsudaira demands Ichi's return, and Isaburo is forced to choose between allegiance to his master and devotion to his beloved daughter-in-law.
		Masaki Kobayashi presents a sublime and haunting examination of conformity, inhumanity, and abuse of power in Samurai Rebellion.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/kobayashi.html (631 words)

	World Cinema: Directors -- Masaki Kobayashi
		It wasn't until 1952 that Kobayashi turned out his first film as a director.
		Kobayashi attracted wider admiration with Sepukku / Harakiri (1962), a Samurai period film many consider his masterpiece, and Kaidan / Kwaidan (1964), a harrowing anthology of ghost stories.
		Other personal triumphs in Kobayashi's sparse but rich repertoire were Joiuchi / Rebellion / Samurai Rebellion (1967) and Kaseki / Fossil (1975), the latter a tautly edited feature version of his eight-hour TV drama.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Metro/9384/directors/kobayashi.htm (263 words)

	Human condition Materials
		Kobayashi's film is a powerful one, "a graphically vivid, uncompromising critique of the brutalities and horrors of the Second World War and their effect on the emotional lives of the participants," as one reviewer puts it.
		Kobayashi's The Human Condition can be viewed as a single aesthetic entity, complete in its sweep of historical events and visual stylizations.
		Standing-in for the director, Kaji says, "Minor facts ignored by history can be fatal to the individual." It is Masaki Kobayashi's recognition of "minor facts" that joins the poetic to the journalistic in a scathing epic about the cruelties of war.
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/humCond.htm (1040 words)

	DBLP: Masaki Kobayashi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Yoshiharu Hayashi, Katsuyoshi Sakaguchi, Mime Kobayashi, Masaki Kobayashi, Yo Kikuchi, Eiichiro Ichiishi: Molecular evaluation using in silico protein interaction profiles.
		Masaki Kobayashi, Motonobu Hattori, Haruaki Yamazaki: Multidirectional associative memory with a hidden layer.
		Yuji Sakamoto, Masaki Kobayashi: Evaluation of the Effects of Noises by Experiments Using a Mobile Robot.
	www.acm.org /turing/sigmod/dblp/db/indices/a-tree/k/Kobayashi:Masaki.html (215 words)

	Masaki Kobayashi Jôi-uchi: Hairyô tsuma shimatsu Samurai Rebellion DVD Review Masaki Kobayashi Jôi-uchi: Hairyô ...
		The second is, that instead of having bushido as the central motif, Kobayashi has a love story.
		This in itself is quiet curios, as Kobayashi was a Marxist and considered love to be a bourgeois weakness.
		Next to this almost mathematically strict compositions, the fight sequences break free, move unrestrained and the final fight is even set against a corn field, which is as random as possible.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReview3/samurairebellion.htm (929 words)

	Masaki Kobayashi
		Masaki Kobayashi foi, na minha opinião, um dos melhores diretores que surgiram quase na mesma época do Kurosawa, chegando, às vezes, a superar seu amigo mais famoso, principalmente nos clássicos Harakiri e Kwaidan, um dos melhores filmes de horror já feitos no mundo (pena que não ganhou o Oscar de Melhor Filme Estrangeiro em 1965...)
		Masaki Kobayashi was, in my opinion, one of the best directors that appeared almost in the same time as Kurosawa.
		After she gets married with his son, he notices that both live happy, but one day she will have to go back to the lord´s house, a situation that will get on the father and son´s nerves, and they will fight until they get their goal: to keep the woman with them.
	www.fortunecity.com /campus/spanish/437/infofilm/kobayashi.html (518 words)

	Art2u: Masaki Kobayashi Filmography
		Masaki Kobayashi (1916-1996) went to work for Shochiku Studios in 1941 as an assistant director.
		His career was interrupted when he was drafted into the army during World War II.
		Kobayashi worked as an assistant to Keisuke Kinoshita.
	www.art2u.com /movies/Kobayashi.html (48 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Kwaidan (1964), Masaki Kobayashi, Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, dvd review
		Kwaidan was directed by Masaki Kobayashi, who is perhaps best known for his Human Condition trilogy for co-producing Akira Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den (1970).
		It turns out that Kobayashi had a particularly good eye for framing, deep-focus photography, staging, economic cutting, and--most especially--changing of lighting within a single shot.
		And though Ophuls was brilliant at layering images within his frame, he never got the hang of the empty frame or the deep-focus that Kobayashi uses to tell his stories.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /kwaidan.shtml (876 words)

	Columbia University: Japanese Film Masters
		Directors like Kobayashi, Oshima, Shinoda, Teshigahara and others turned first to Takemitsu for the music for their films, and many of them claim to have learned as much about filmmaking from him as about music.
		With savage irony, Kobayashi comments also on the perversion of history when it is recorded exclusively by the victors in a struggle for power.
		Kobayashi followed the success of Hara Kiri with this second attack on the Japanese feudal code and its abuse of powerless individuals.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/ealac/jfm (1184 words)

	KWAIDAN (Masaki Kobayashi) -- Jesus El Diablo Quintana
		Published May 15th, 2005 in filmski osvrti Tags: Cannes, drvosječa, duh, Hearn, Japan, Kobayashi, kultura, Kwaidan, ljubav, muzičar, omnibus, samuraj, Tuškanac, šalica, čaj.
		Kobayashi se proslavio svojom ratnom trilogijom “Ljudsko stanje” snimljenom između 1959-1961 gdje prikazuje realnu sliku ratnih strahota te emocinalno i fizičko stradanje pojedinca u ratu.
		Kwaidan je majstorsko djelo pripovijedanja koje je Kobayashi režirao stilski raskošno i moćno. Film će igrati još jednom u Tuškancu i to 19.05.
	jesusquintana.org /2005/05/kwaidan-masaki-kobayashi (671 words)

	DVDBeaver.com - DVD Comparison Masaki Kobayashi's - Harakiri - Seppuku DVD Review Masaki Kobayashi Harakiri Seppuku DVD ...
		Winner of the 1963 Cannes Film Festival's Special Jury Prize, Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri is a scathing denouncement of feudal authority and hypocrisy.
		This is the basis of “Hara Kiri” by Kobayashi.
		Written by Hishimoto Shinobu, the regular writer of Kurosawa and perhaps the best screenwriter in Japanese film history, based on a novel by Takiguchi Yasuhiko, Kobayashi lines out his critic of the Samurai code, its hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness and how powerless the individual is against the daimyo’s control of its own history.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReview3/harakiri.htm (1535 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Masaki Kobayashi - 1964 - Kaidan Movies Review
		Awarded the Jury Special Prize at Cannes in 1965, Masaki Kobayashi's film uses the stories of Lafcadio Hearn as source material.
		Hearn, born of a Greek mother and an Irish father, attended boarding schools in France and England before working as a journalist in Cincinnati, Ohio and New Orleans, Louisiana.
		Kobayashi's tales of the supernatural won't frighten or provoke profound thoughts, but they are aesthetically pleasing and are worth a rental.
	www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10003247 (855 words)

	Rebellion
		Masaki Kobayashi is one of Japan's most outstanding post-war humanist filmmakers.
		By 1967 production of the samurai genre was reaching the end of a cycle that began at the end of WW II.
		In a montage composed of a series of rapid cuts, stills and freezes on action, Kobayashi illustrates the scandal that led to Lady Ichi's removal from the castle.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/02/22/rebellion.html (1173 words)

	Amazon.ca: Kwaidan (Widescreen): DVD: Masaki Kobayashi,Yoichi Hayashi,Kei Sato,Ganemon Nakamura,Takashi Shimura,Rentaro ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		So it is that these four cinematic interpretations--perhaps more accurately described as tales of spectral visitation--are sublimely Japanese in tone and texture, created entirely in a studio with frequently stunning results.
		There are painterly images here that remain the most beautiful and haunting in all of Japanese cinema, presented with the purity of silent film, sparsely accompanied by post-synchronized sounds and music (by Toru Takemitsu) that enhance the otherworldly effect of director Masaki Kobayashi's meticulous imagery.
		Adapted from traditional Japanese ghost stories, this lavish, widescreen production drew extensively on Kobayashi's own training as a student of painting and fine arts.
	www.amazon.ca /Kwaidan-Widescreen-Masaki-Kobayashi/dp/B00004W3HF (1489 words)

	Human Condition, Part 2: The Road to Eternity \| Cast & Crew \| MTV Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The second of Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi's Human Condition trilogy was titled The Road to Eternity (originally Zoku Ningen No Joken).
		Picking up where 1958's No Greater Love left off (see entry 23818 for details), this 1961 film finds the gentle, pacifistic Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) being sent to basic training camp in Manchuria in the waning days of World War II.
		The film concludes with the surrender of Japan, but the story is open-ended enough to allow for a sequel: 1970's A Soldier's Prayer (see entry 23817).
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/16504/castcrew.jhtml (422 words)

	Masaki Kobayashi (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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	Masaki Kobayashi films on DVD & VHS - MovieMail UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mifune stars as world-weary samurai forced to choose between the love of his family and loyalty to his clan in this highly regarded work from one of Japan's greatest directors.
		Four nightmarish tales adapted from Lafcadio Hearn's classic Japanese ghost stories.
		This lavish, 'scope production drew extensively on Kobayashi's own training as a student of painting and fine...
	www.moviemail-online.co.uk /directors/563 (84 words)

	La Condition De L'Homme, Masaki Kobayashi, Carlotta Films - DVD - Chapitre.com
		La Condition De L'Homme, Masaki Kobayashi, Carlotta Films - DVD - Chapitre.com
		Masaki Kobayashi - Zenzo Matsuyama - Koichi Inagaki
		Pour lui commence alors une aventure humaine dramatique et cruelle...
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