Film Maker in Focus: Kobayashi Masahiro
Overview of films
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Amazing Story
Kobayashi Masahiro | 103' | Japan | None
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… -
Bashing
Kobayashi Masahiro | 82' | Japan | None
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… -
Bootleg Film
Kobayashi Masahiro | 74' | Japan | None
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… -
Closing Time
Kobayashi Masahiro | 81' | Japan | None
‘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… -
Flic
Kobayashi Masahiro | 154' | Japan | None
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… -
Man Walking on Snow
Kobayashi Masahiro | 102' | Japan | None
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… -
The Rebirth
Kobayashi Masahiro | 102' | Japan | None
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…