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.
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Known For | Writing |
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Most Rating | 5.177 |
Birthday | 1954-01-06 |
Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
Also Known As | Koichi Kobayashi, 小林宏一, 小林政広, |
2007
The Rebirth
5.8/6
Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he wan...
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The Rebirth
2008
Code Name: Melville
6.8/5
Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth duri...
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Code Name: Melville
2009
Where Are You?
6.2/5
A sixteen year old boy, Ryo, experiences the painful ordeal of his mother being hospitalized and then dying. The boy turns to crime, but doesn't find...
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Where Are You?
2013
Strangers When We Meet
0/0
The minimalistically staged Strangers When We Meet displays similarities with Kobayashi's The Rebirth (2007) and provides a sensitive observation of a...
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