Masahiro Kobayashi

Birthday: 1/6/1954
Deathday: 8/20/2022
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Fame for: Writing
Also known as: Koichi Kobayashi, 小林宏一

Biography

Masahiro Kobayashi (小林政広 Kobayashi Masahiro, born January 6, 1954) is 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.