Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Known Credits
83
Gender
Male
Birthday
1954-01-06
Day of Death
2022-08-20 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Also Known As
Koichi Kobayashi
小林宏一
林ヒロシ
Masahiro Kobayashi
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Masahiro Kobayashi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
