Masahiro Kobayashi Movies

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...

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

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

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

Following the 2011 tsunami, three women reunite in the family home only to rekindle tense, ruinous relationships.

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

A sexual tale of an erotic film depicting the love, lust and sex of a traumatized new young nurse. Akemi is a nurse who drags her leg due to a past...

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 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...

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...

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

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 lustful and intense sexual experiences of women at the beach one summer. Eventually, the women's unrestrained behavior develops into a strange...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...