Masahiro Kobayashi Movies

Because of the desolate landscape, Kobayashi chose snow-covered Hokkaido (the most northern island of Japan) as the setting for Amazing Story, a...

Fumio, who works at an ironworks, has an affair with Yoko, the wife of the president of the ironworks. The wife of Shimizu, a detective who...

Nakadai Tatsuya, Japan’s greatest living actor, gives the performance of a lifetime as Shoji Sanosuke, and elderly samurai forced to pick up...

A girl named Ai gets a major record deal to sing a song written by a friend of hers who is deceased. However an obsessed stalker fan slowly starts...

The story follows Muhan, the female assassin introduced in 1985's Dream Crimes, who was originally based on Takashi Ishii's manga character (unlike...

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...

Asako, who has been married for eight years and has no children, is dissatisfied with her husband who comes home late every night, but she lives...

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...

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

Yuji and Akiko are newlyweds. Yuji dreams of being a movie star. He lands the lead role in a Pink Eiga soft-core sex film. The director requires him...

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...

Kumiko, who goes to a culture center with her husband's permission, has fallen prey to the instructor, Oikawa. Akiko, who also attends the same...

Yuko is a Japanese girl who was taken hostage in Iraq while volunteering there as an aid worker. Finally released and back in her hometown, Yuko...

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...

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...

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...

Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.

As a newspaper reporter listens to the confession of a wife who murdered her husband, the film shockingly depicts the process by which she discovers...