Kobayashi Naoko
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Kobayashi Naoko at IFFR
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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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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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Japan’s Tragedy
Black-and-white, with rice-paper doors. The director knows his classics, but remains a modernist. A father and son wrestle with death and loss. Str
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Strangers When We Meet
A car accident and a secret date cause Ryoichi (Kobayashi himself) and his wife to stop talking to each other. Intensely sad.
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Women on the Edge
The disaster on 11 March 2011 made a huge impression in Japan. Few filmmakers were capable of coming up with an original response, but Kobayashi fo
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Haru’s Journey
Old fisherman takes a journey so he’ll no longer burden his granddaughter Haru. Together they visit family in search of a new home. Japanese
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Where Are You?
2008s Film Maker in Focus Kobayashi Masahiro shows today’s Japan from the perspective of an adolescent. Kobayashi Yuto, the son of the direct