Masahiro Kobayashi
Masahiro Kobayashi (小林 政広 Kobayashi Masahiro, born January 6, 1954) is a Japanese film writer and director. Kobayashi became the first Japanese filmmaker to win the Grand Prize at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. In its wake, he founded Monkey Town Productions and made three films back to back which won prizes in three consecutive years at Cannes: Kaizokuban Bootleg Film (1999) and Man Walking on Snow (2001) in Un Certain Regard and Koroshi (2000) in the Directors' Fortnight. Description above from the Wikipedia article Masahiro Kobayashi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Code Name: Melville
as SelfMixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works...
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Where Are You?
as Kawai's FatherA sixteen year old boy, Ryo, experiences the painful ordeal of his mother being hospitalized and...
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The Rebirth
as JunichiCoincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His...
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Strangers When We Meet
as uncreditedThe minimalistically staged Strangers When We Meet displays similarities with Kobayashi's The...
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