Loading AI tools
Japanese film director (1954–2022) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Masahiro Kobayashi (小林 政広, Kobayashi Masahiro, January 6, 1954 – August 20, 2022)[1] was a Japanese film director.
Masahiro Kobayashi | |
---|---|
小林 政広 | |
Born | Tokyo, Japan | January 6, 1954
Died | August 20, 2022 68) | (aged
Occupation | Film 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.
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.