This is a list of people who do art for the sake of art. People who did not care about fame, meeting quotas, or chasing commercial success. These are individuals who poured their hearts into their craft, driven only by a passion for creation and an unyielding dedication to their art. They worked not for recognition, but because the act of creating was intrinsic to their very being, a form of personal expression and a pursuit of beauty in its purest form.

The Purest of Purists

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Masaki Kobayashi

Sincere Heart

I Will Buy You

Hymn to a Tired Man

Youth of the Son

Inn of Evil

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

Beautiful Days

The Inheritance

Harakiri

Tokyo Trial

Three Loves

Glowing Autumn

Kwaidan

Fountainhead

Samurai Rebellion

The Thick-Walled Room

Somewhere Under the Broad Sky

The Fossil

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

Black River

Family Without a Dinner Table

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