Masaki Kobayashi
3 connections found
Filmography
View:
Connections, in both directions
Visually and narratively, 13 Assassins reflects back to films at least as far apart in time and disparate in tone and theme as Mizoguchi Kenji's 1941 The 47 Ronin and Kobayashi Masaki's 1962 Harakiri (which Miike remade immediately following this film - redundantly, given how much Kobayashi influence there would appear to be in every inch of 13 Assassins).
Its world of wood spirits and bucolic sorcery is actually closer in spirit to folk tale films such as Kobayashi's "Kwaidan" than to the culture of Disney's "Alice in Wonderland."
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)
Directed by Jane Schoenbrun
influenced by Kwaidan (1965)
Visuals
These hand-crafted realms evoke Kwaidan more than Friday the 13th.