Masahiro Kobayashi Movies

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

An aimless and lonely call girl becomes involved with a detective who is looking for a underage runaway.

Two best friends—Tatsuo, a retiring Yakuza member, and Kiyoshi, a cop—travel to the funeral of a woman they both loved.

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete (パーfectブルー 夢なら醒めて, Pāfekuto...

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...

Rokuro Saito was hired as a gardener for the Kawarazaki family. The beautiful mistress of the house, Kyoko, who greeted Rokuro, was a widow with two...

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

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

Straight-to-video film directed by Shinya Yamamoto.

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...

Kazuo Murata is a detective who has lost his wife and eventually the meaning of his existence.

Kiriko is a beautiful woman working in a quiet hot spring town. The owner of the inn, Goro, is attracted to her beauty and asks her out, but she...

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...

Two wives who leave their husbands behind and go on a hot spring trip, and two husbands who play homosexual games because it's not fair for them to...

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...

Tatsuya Nakadai, the world’s greatest living actor, returns to the screen in a brilliant adaptation of a story by novelist Shuhei Fujisawa. A...

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

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...

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...

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...