Actor
Masahiro Kobayashi
January 6, 1954 · Tokyo, Japan
Masahiro Kobayashi (6 January 1954 - 20 August 2022) was 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.
Often works with
Teruyuki Kagawa
5 titles together
Haru's Journey, Man Walking on Snow, Bashing
Nene Otsuka
4 titles together
Man Walking on Snow, Bashing, Flic
Hotaru Hazuki
4 titles together
Man Walking on Snow, Flic, One Week
Ryuzo Tanaka
4 titles together
Bashing, Flic, Where Are You?
Kikujiro Honda
4 titles together
Bashing, Flic, Apartment Wife: Adultery in broad daylight
Tatsuya Nakadai
3 titles together
Haru's Journey, Lear on the Shore, Japan's Tragedy
Full filmography · 19
Lear on the Shore
Director
2017
Strangers When We Meet
cast and Director
2013
Strangers
Director
2013
Japan's Tragedy
Writer and Director
2012
Haru's Journey
Director and Writer
2010
Where Are You?
as Kawai's Father and Writer and Director
2009
White Night
Director
2009
The Rebirth
as Junichi and Writer and Director
2007
The Happiness
Director
2006
Bashing
Director and Writer
2006
Flic
Director
2005
Déracine
Writer
2004