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...

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...

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...

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...

Straight-to-video film directed by Shinya Yamamoto.

Chokichi Kuwahata was once a leading actor, but he is ravaged by dementia and old age now. His daughter and the men in her life go against his wishes...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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 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...

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...

Yasuo and Reiko are a married couple with good sexual compatibility, but Yasuo is dissatisfied with the lack of enjoyable conversation between them....

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...