Filmmaker had four features selected for Cannes including ‘Bashing’.
Kobayashi Masahiro, the award-winning director of Bashing and The Rebirth, has died aged 68.
The filmmaker died in Tokyo on August 20 following a five-year battle with cancer, according to reports.
In a career that spanned three decades, Kobayashi had four films play at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Golden Leopard at Locarno with The Rebirth in 2007.
Born in Tokyo, Kobayashi was initially a folk singer before moving into writing scripts for television.
His feature directorial debut came in 1996 with Closing Time, which won the grand prize at Japan’s Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival.
Kobayashi Masahiro, the award-winning director of Bashing and The Rebirth, has died aged 68.
The filmmaker died in Tokyo on August 20 following a five-year battle with cancer, according to reports.
In a career that spanned three decades, Kobayashi had four films play at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Golden Leopard at Locarno with The Rebirth in 2007.
Born in Tokyo, Kobayashi was initially a folk singer before moving into writing scripts for television.
His feature directorial debut came in 1996 with Closing Time, which won the grand prize at Japan’s Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival.
- 9/7/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Kobayashi Masahiro, the director of four films that screened at Cannes, died in Tokyo on August 20, 2022, age 68. His death was disclosed only on Wednesday, with the cause given as colonic cancer.
Born in Tokyo in 1954, Kobayashi started out as a folksinger and scriptwriter for television and erotic features called ‘pink films.’
In 1996, at age 42, he made his directorial debut with “Closing Time,” a self-financed indie about the life and loves of an alcoholic scriptwriter. The film won the grand prize at the first Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival.
His next films screened three years in a row at Cannes – “Kaizokuban Bootleg Film” (1999) and “Man Walking on Snow” (2001) in Un Certain Regard and “Koroshi” (2000) in the Directors’ Fortnight.
Among his biggest critical successes, however, was “Bashing,” a 2005 drama about a young woman who goes to Iraq to provide humanitarian aid, is kidnapped and released. When she returns to her provincial hometown,...
Born in Tokyo in 1954, Kobayashi started out as a folksinger and scriptwriter for television and erotic features called ‘pink films.’
In 1996, at age 42, he made his directorial debut with “Closing Time,” a self-financed indie about the life and loves of an alcoholic scriptwriter. The film won the grand prize at the first Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival.
His next films screened three years in a row at Cannes – “Kaizokuban Bootleg Film” (1999) and “Man Walking on Snow” (2001) in Un Certain Regard and “Koroshi” (2000) in the Directors’ Fortnight.
Among his biggest critical successes, however, was “Bashing,” a 2005 drama about a young woman who goes to Iraq to provide humanitarian aid, is kidnapped and released. When she returns to her provincial hometown,...
- 9/7/2022
- by Mark Schilling
- Variety Film + TV
Film journalist Mike Malloy remembers the scrupled actor
McGoohan as Danger Man John Drake in a scene from the feature film Koroshi that was derived from the TV series. (Photo: Mike Malloy collection.)
Most movie-star hopefuls enter the entertainment industry knowing full well they will have to scratch and claw out a career for themselves in ways that compromise their previously held values. This is not to say they’ll necessarily cheat and backstab to make it in The Biz (it often comes to that), but they certainly won’t turn down precious advancement opportunities on moral grounds.
Recently deceased, thoughtful thesp Patrick McGoohan (“The Prisoner,” Ice Station Zebra, Braveheart, “Secret Agent”) found a different route to stardom, one that reflected his very principled beliefs. And because he made choices detrimental to his fame—he could’ve been 007, after all—and yet became an international film and TV star nonetheless,...
McGoohan as Danger Man John Drake in a scene from the feature film Koroshi that was derived from the TV series. (Photo: Mike Malloy collection.)
Most movie-star hopefuls enter the entertainment industry knowing full well they will have to scratch and claw out a career for themselves in ways that compromise their previously held values. This is not to say they’ll necessarily cheat and backstab to make it in The Biz (it often comes to that), but they certainly won’t turn down precious advancement opportunities on moral grounds.
Recently deceased, thoughtful thesp Patrick McGoohan (“The Prisoner,” Ice Station Zebra, Braveheart, “Secret Agent”) found a different route to stardom, one that reflected his very principled beliefs. And because he made choices detrimental to his fame—he could’ve been 007, after all—and yet became an international film and TV star nonetheless,...
- 1/17/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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