Masahiro Kobayashi (director)

Kobayashi became the first Japanese filmmaker to win the Grand Prize at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival.^[2] 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.^[3] Bashing was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.^[4] “Amazing Story” (2003), “The Rebirth” (2007) and “Where are you?” (2009) were invited in competition to Festival del film Locarno. “The Rebirth” won four prizes at the 60th Festival del film Locarno prizes, including the Golden Leopard and the Daniel Schmid award. In 2008, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Festival do Rio and the Buenos Aires International Film Festival hosted a retrospective of his films to great acclaim. Kobayashi makes out of as many as 16 feature films that are mostly written and produced by himself.

• Closing Time (1996)
• Kaizokuban Bootleg Film (1999)
• Film Noir (2000)
• Man Walking on Snow (2001)
• Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete (2002) (writer)
• Amazing Story (2003)
• Déracine (2004) (writer)
• Flic (2005)
• Bashing (2005)
• The Rebirth (2007)
• The Happiness (2008)
• White Night (2009)
• Haru's Journey (2010)
• Women on the Edge (2011)
• Japan's Tragedy (2012)
• Strangers When We Meet (2013)
• Lear on the Shore (2016)