Masaki Kobayashi
In 1946 Masaki Kobayashi became Kinoshita's assistant and later formed with him, Akira Kurosawa, and Kon Ichikawa a directors group called "Shiki no kai" ("The Four Horsemen Club"). The goal was to produce films for a younger audience, but only one project was realised, Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den (1970).