Masahiro Kobayashi Movies

A sixteen year old boy, Ryo, experiences the painful ordeal of his mother being hospitalized and then dying. The boy turns to crime, but doesn't find...

The story of a vagrant who arrives in a town in Hokkaido. With only a threadbare suit, an old pair of sneakers, and a bag containing all his worldly...

The sensual images depict the love and hatred between four men and women living together, creating a new kind of love story. One night, alcoholic...

A widower who’s daughter has been murdered at high school meets the mother of the murderer by coincidence after moving to a small town in...

A young-at-heart widower leads an independent life in a quiet fishing town in northern Japan. He eases his loneliness by walking in the snow and...

A mysterious street-painter, Jouji, wanders aimlessly, homeless. Together with his homeless pals, he makes his living by selling his paintings on the...

Yoichi, who works for an advertising agency becomes heavily obsessed with a strange woman, things go unexpected, leading to a divorce and other...

What did a man who had his wife stolen by his mistress and his girlfriend violated see in this hell on earth? A feast of lust unfolds every night...

The movie is absurd, and a thoroughly original take on the morale in Japanese society. The images are beautiful, and the people are as cold as the...

This is the second installment in the so-called "stupid brothers" series, which depicts the end of a female-loving and selfish sibling and a...

The minimalistically staged Strangers When We Meet displays similarities with Kobayashi's The Rebirth (2007) and provides a sensitive observation of...

Asako and Tomoko, who live next door to each other in a certain apartment complex, are housewives who frequently chat with each other. Asako, who is...

A young office lady is lured to the countrside and sadistically tortured by her supposed fiancé and his girlfriend. Left for dead she is taken...

A melodrama that emotionally depicts a broken couple with sensual scenes. This is the first film by director Toshiki Sato and screenwriter Masahiro...

The film follows a struggling screenwriter who, while researching a porn film, becomes involved with a trans woman hostess.

In 2010, 31,560 people ended their own lives and about 20,000 people died or went missing with the earthquake. Unemployed widower Fujio Murai’s...

A down-and-out scriptwriter spends his days and nights in the bars of Tokyo. When he is thrown out of a joint because it is closing time, there is...

Fate brings a man and woman together in Lyon, France. They fall in love, but time is set to run out on them ...

Ito, a film director with no money and no woman, is agonizing every night over a violent love affair he hears from a neighbor who has recently moved...