Masahiro Kobayashi

WriterDirectorProducerActorComposer Jan 6 (died age 68) Tokyo, Japan 1986–2019 (33 year career)

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Biography

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. Description ab…

Known For

Film

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete

Screenplay

Film

The Return

Screenplay

Film

Haru's Journey

Director

Film

Man Walking on Snow

Director

Film

Bashing

Writer

Film

Lear on the Shore

Director

Film

Code Name: Melville

Self

Film

Kaizokuban Bootleg Film

Director

Filmography

Acting (4)

Movies (4)

Strangers When We Meet

Code Name: Melville

as Self

Where Are You?

as Kawai's Father

The Rebirth

as Junichi

Crew (72)

Movies (72)

The Return

Screenplay

Lear on the Shore

Director

Lear on the Shore

Producer

Lear on the Shore

Screenplay

小さな橋で

Screenplay

A Duel Tale

Screenplay

Strangers

Director

Strangers When We Meet

2013

Director

Japan's Tragedy

Director

Japan's Tragedy

Writer

Women on the Edge

Director

Haru's Journey

Director

Haru's Journey

Writer

White Night

Director

Where Are You?

Director

Where Are You?

Producer

Where Are You?

Writer

The Rebirth

Director

The Rebirth

Original Music Composer

The Rebirth

Writer

The Happiness

Director

Bashing

Writer

Flic

Director

Flic

Producer

Flic

Screenplay

Flic

Story

Tokyo Booty Nights

Writer

Perfect Education 5: Amazing Story

Director

Déracine

Writer

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete

Screenplay

Man Walking on Snow

Director

Man Walking on Snow

Writer

The Sister‑in‑Law Who Yearns: A Promiscuous Relationship

2001

Writer

3.0

Apartment Wife: Adulterous Love

Screenplay

Film Noir

Director

Film Noir

Writer

One Week

Director

Endless Lust: Make Me Squirm!

Screenplay

Dosukebe anechan

Screenplay

New Apartment Complex Wife: Adultery is a Taste of Honey

1999

Screenplay

3.0

The Lustful Sister-in-Law 2: Erotic Games

Screenplay

Lusty Hot Spring

Writer

Kaizokuban Bootleg Film

1999

Director

5.9

Kaizokuban Bootleg Film

Writer

Drops of Eros

Screenplay

My Brother's Lover

Screenplay

Apartment Wife: Lost Cat

1998

Screenplay

3.3

Akai yokujô: Hame jôzu

1997

Screenplay

2.0

Apartment Wife: Adultery in broad daylight

1997

Writer

3.7

Lascivious Nurse Uniform Diary: Two or Three Times, While I'm Wet

1997

Writer

3.7

Akai hankô: Yume no ato shimatsu

1997

Writer

Adultery Diary: One More Time While I'm Still Wet

Screenplay

Closing Time

Director

Closing Time

Screenplay

Kawarasaki Family

Screenplay

Lunatic

Screenplay

Killing Angel Muhan

Script

Tandem

Screenplay

Tandem

Songs

Molester's Commuter Train: Office Ladys' Sexuality

Screenplay

Naomi

Screenplay

The Toko Video

Screenplay

Promiscuous Wife's Sexuality: Pleasure Hunting

1992

Screenplay

3.8

Mr. Gosuto ni Yoroshiku

1991

Screenplay

Abnormal Ecstasy

1991

Screenplay

Extremely Wild Genuine Sex: Night of the Perverts

1990

Screenplay

2.0

Soaking Wet: Touching All Over the Body

1990

Screenplay

2.0

How to Make Tasty Water

1989

Screenplay

E-Cup Real Action Take Two: Rich & Ripe

1989

Screenplay

7.0

Woman of Dreams

1989

Screenplay

Roppongi Reijô: Fushidara

Screenplay

Za shōgeki

Screenplay