Masahiro Kobayashi
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1954-01-06 (68 years old)
Deathday
2022-08-20
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Also known As
Koichi Kobayashi
小林宏一
林ヒロシ
Masahiro Kobayashi
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 above from the Wikipedia article Masahiro Kobayashi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
Production
1999
as Writer
1999
as Director
1987
as Screenplay
2006
as Writer
2006
as Director
2011
as Writer
2011
as Director
2010
as Director
2010
as Writer
2002
as Writer
2007
as Director
2007
as Writer
2012
as Director
2012
as Writer
2000
as Writer
2000
as Director
2009
as Director
2009
as Writer
2009
as Producer
1986
as Screenplay
2013
as Director
1996
as Director
2019
as Screenplay
2013
as Director
2001
as Director
2005
as Director
2004
as Director
2006
as Director
2009
as Director
2004
as Writer
2001
as Writer
1999
2000
as Screenplay
1999
as Screenplay
2009
as Screenplay
1997
as Screenplay
1999
as Writer
1997
as Writer
2004
as Writer
1994
as Screenplay
2017
as Director
2017
as Screenplay
2017
as Producer
1996
as Screenplay
1999
as Screenplay
1997
1998
as Screenplay
2015
as Screenplay
1996
as Screenplay
1990
as Screenplay
1993
as Screenplay
1989
as Screenplay
1989
as Screenplay
1990
as Screenplay
1993
as Screenplay
1996
as Screenplay
1991
as Screenplay
1992
as Screenplay
2000
as Director
2005
as Producer
2005
as Story
2005
as Screenplay
1995
as Script
2004
as Screenplay
2011
as Producer
2007
as Original Music Composer
2000
as Screenplay
1996
as Screenplay
2000
as Screenplay
2006
as Original Music Composer
1998
as Screenplay
1989
as Screenplay
2017
as Screenplay
1994
as Songs
1992
as Screenplay
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