Film Maker in Focus: Kobayashi Masahiro
Overview of films
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Man Walking on Snow
A simple story about grand things. The old man who walks through the snow is on his way to a fish farm to look at fish and to fill the void. It wil
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Amazing Story
Again, Kobayashi takes us along to a snow-covered Hokkaido, where this time a man kidnaps the hairdresser of a small town. Not a thriller, but a li
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Bootleg Film
Road movie filled with film references set in a snow-covered Japan. With an unlikely friendship between a cop and a Yakuza, a body in the trunk and
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Closing Time
‘The most French of all Japanese film makers’ made his debut with this story about the seamy side of Tokyo. A down and out writer fills his nights
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Flic
When a young girl from Hokkaido is murdered in her hotel room in Tokyo with a chainsaw, Inspector Murata (the flic from the title) is brought back
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The Rebirth
Cold behaviour in a cold world doesn’t mean that a film about coldness should also be cold. Two people come to terms with a sorrow so great t
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Bashing
A Kobayashi in top form. Yuko is a young woman who worked as a volunteer for an aid organisation in Iraq. One fateful day she was kidnapped. ItR