Masahiro Kobayashi

Known for: Writing
Born: January 6, 1954, Tokyo, Japan
Died: August 20, 2022
Movies: 59

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.

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Best-Known Movies

6.4

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete

2002

6.6

Haru's Journey

2010

6.1

Man Walking on Snow

2002

6.2

Bashing

2006

5.3

Perfect Education 5: Amazing Story

2004

6.4

Lear on the Shore

2017

7.3

The Return

2019

4.2

Tandem

1994

6.1

Kaizokuban Bootleg Film

1999

6.9

Flic

2005

Filmography

2013	Strangers When We Meet
2010	Code Name: Melville	Self
2009	Where Are You?	Kawai's Father
2007	The Rebirth	Junichi

Directing, Writing & Producing

2019	The Return	Screenplay
2017	小さな橋で	Screenplay
2017	Lear on the Shore	Producer, Screenplay, Director
2015	A Duel Tale	Screenplay
2013	Strangers When We Meet	Director
2013	Strangers	Director
2012	Japan's Tragedy	Writer, Director
2011	Women on the Edge	Writer, Director, Producer
2010	Haru's Journey	Director, Writer
2009	Where Are You?	Writer, Director, Producer
2009	White Night	Director, Screenplay
2007	The Rebirth	Writer, Director
2006	The Happiness	Director
2006	Bashing	Director, Writer
2005	Flic	Director, Screenplay, Producer
2004	Perfect Education 5: Amazing Story	Director, Screenplay
2004	Déracine	Writer
2004	Tokyo Booty Nights	Screenplay
2002	Man Walking on Snow	Director, Writer, Producer
2002	Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete	Screenplay
2001	The Sister‑in‑Law Who Yearns: A Promiscuous Relationship	Writer
2000	Film Noir	Writer, Director
2000	Endless Lust: Make Me Squirm!	Screenplay
2000	Dosukebe anechan	Screenplay
2000	Apartment Wife: Adulterous Love	Screenplay
2000	One Week	Director, Screenplay
1999	Kaizokuban Bootleg Film	Writer, Director
1999	The Lustful Sister-in-Law 2: Erotic Games	Screenplay
1999	Lusty Hot Spring	Screenplay
1999	Drops of Eros	Screenplay
1999	New Apartment Complex Wife: Adultery is a Taste of Honey	Screenplay
1998	My Brother's Lover	Screenplay
1998	Apartment Wife: Lost Cat	Screenplay
1997	Akai yokujô: Hame jôzu	Screenplay
1997	Apartment Wife: Adultery in broad daylight	Writer
1997	Lascivious Nurse Uniform Diary: Two or Three Times, While I'm Wet	Writer
1997	Akai hankô: Yume no ato shimatsu	Screenplay
1996	Adultery Diary: One More Time While I'm Still Wet	Screenplay
1996	Kawarasaki Family	Screenplay
1996	Lunatic	Screenplay
1996	Closing Time	Director, Screenplay
1994	Tandem	Screenplay
1993	Naomi	Screenplay
1993	Molester's Commuter Train: Office Ladys' Sexuality	Screenplay
1992	Promiscuous Wife's Sexuality: Pleasure Hunting	Screenplay
1992	The Toko Video	Screenplay
1991	Abnormal Ecstasy	Screenplay
1991	Mr. Gosuto ni Yoroshiku	Screenplay
1990	Extremely Wild Genuine Sex: Night of the Perverts	Screenplay
1990	Soaking Wet: Touching All Over the Body	Screenplay
1989	How to Make Tasty Water	Screenplay
1989	E-Cup Real Action Take Two: Rich & Ripe	Screenplay
1989	Woman of Dreams	Screenplay
1987	Roppongi Reijô: Fushidara	Screenplay
1986	Za shōgeki	Screenplay

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