Masaki Kobayashi
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Oct 18, 2026
David HopkinsHOST
Kwaidan, as we mentioned at the beginning of the episode, maybe not saying it correctly.
David HopkinsHOST
1964 Japanese horror anthology film directed by Masaaki Kobayashi from a screenplay by Yoko Mizuki.
David HopkinsHOST
It consists of four separate stories adapted from, man, I forgot how to say this dude's name.
David HopkinsHOST
It looks like Lafcadio Hearn.
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Dave RobertsHOST
But even so...
Dave RobertsHOST
the sheer scale of that studio and the backdrops, the sky, the paintings of like pagodas in the background, just all of it was really so well done.
Dave RobertsHOST
And it's such a beautiful movie that it's left me thinking to myself, I don't know if I knew about Masaaki Kobayashi before watching this film, but I certainly do now to the point that like i'm looking and he's got at least there's a couple of samurai movies he made called harakiri and rebellion which he made either side of this and i'm interested to watch him now i really am
David HopkinsHOST
yeah he's definitely uh one that i is a huge blind spot for me as well um Even his Wikipedia page, I think...
WillHOST
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WillHOST
but Kobayashi, uh, Masaki Kobayashi making, uh, Kwaidan-
SammyHOST
Mm
WillHOST
... after Harakiri and Human Conditions, Samurai Rebellion.
HarryHOST
which is the highest rated movie
LukeHOST
The highest-read actual movie, which is number one on the top 500 narrative features, is Harakiri, a samurai movie from 1962 by Masaaki Kobayashi.
LukeHOST
I've seen it.
LukeHOST
It is sick, to be fair.
Adam LundyHOST
Yeah.
Adam LundyHOST
but with Kobayashi we kind of have to talk about the human condition trilogy the final part is in the 60s and 61 but parts 1 and 2 came out in this era so we might as well kind of talk about it as a trilogy Jesus Christ did you finish it in the end
Chris HaskellHOST
No, I was going to wait, but I saw the first one, obviously.
Chris HaskellHOST
I do want to quickly say this kind of leads in well into the human condition, I think.
Chris HaskellHOST
So Kobayashi is an interesting guy.
Chris HaskellHOST
You know, he's a cousin of Tanaka.
Chris HaskellHOST
Yeah, exactly.
Adam LundyHOST
know power still corrupts absolutely and people are terrible and all that stuff but like it's so fucking good um it's just peak filmmaking um i love part one part two is is great uh part three
Tony MichasHOST
My favourite Japanese horror film is from 1963, I believe.
Tony MichasHOST
It is a film by Masaaki Kobayashi and the movie is called Kidan.
Tony MichasHOST
But it's spelled K-W-A-I-D-A-N, Kwaidan.
Tony MichasHOST
But it's pronounced Kidaan.
speaker_2HOST
A classic
speaker_1HOST
This is directed by Masaki Kobayashi and is based on a 1958 novel by Junpei Gomikawa.
speaker_1HOST
And when I say novel, I mean, like, a staggering six-part literary behemoth
speaker_2HOST
And, and translating a, a six-part novel of, of this magnitude is a, is a monumental undertaking
MorganGUEST
The other one that
Zachary MorgasonHOST
I would think about would be The Human Condition by Masaaki Kobayashi, particularly the first part of it.
Zachary MorgasonHOST
But if you've ever read the Rivette thing on Capo, the Giovanni Pontecorvo movie Capo that has Emanuel Riva in it, those guys, I mean, you've heard it from Hanukkah, right? He's the successor to that whole generation of french fucking kahir do cinema losers who is like schindler's list is fucking evil or whatever yeah it's it's too big of a brush to paint with but i often think about it when we do get into situations where i feel the same way where i'm like well i mean you just kind of showed me how badass it looked and now you're telling me that it sucks Is it both?
Cole DuffyHOST
I think that's just part of the contradiction that we all have to live with.