06-01-1954
Birthday
Capricorn
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
4
Total Films
小林宏一
Also known as (male)
Tokyo, Japan
Place of Birth
06-01-1954
Birthday
Capricorn
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
4
Total Films
Koichi Kobayashi
Also Known As (male)
Tokyo, Japan
Place of Birth
actor
4 Works
producer
4 Works
director
75 Works
writer
50 Works
other
3 Works
Strangers When We Meet
The minimalistically staged Strangers When We Meet displays similarities with Kobayashi's The Rebirth (2007) and provides a sensitive observation of a couple who, tormented by loss, blame and guilt, adhere rigidly to their daily routine. Will they ever find each other again?Year:
2013
Where Are You?
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 success. He then seeks out his remarried father, but the pain still exists.Year:
2009
Code Name: Melville
Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.Year:
2008
The Rebirth
Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he wants to live in anonymity, working with his hands. He moves away and gets a job in a factory. The woman who is the mother of the killer wants to apologize to the father, although she knows it would change nothing. He refuses to meet. She moves back to her hometown. She works in the kitchen at an inn where the man now lives. No one speaks. He eats alone. He reads in his apartment. She walks to her home and has a sandwich. She keeps her eyes lowered. He drives to work. Does either want to connect? What bond can they establish?Year:
2007
