Masahiro Kobayashi
Writing
January 6, 1954
Died at age 68
August 20, 2022
Date of Death
Tokyo, Japan
4 Credits
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.
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