Production

Kôji Kobayashi

Known for

Production

Credits

12 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Don't Look Up poster
6.4

A filmmaker and crew slowly go insane after being continually haunted by the ghost of a dead actress.

Don't Look Up

1996

Suzaku poster
7.3

Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru. Economic recession and failed development plans cause tragedy in the family.

Suzaku

1997

Shenmue: The Movie poster
5.5

Ryo Hazuki finds himself seeing his father Iwao die at the hands of a mysterious Chinese man named Lan Di, who also steals an item Iwao had called the "Dragon Mirror". Ryo makes it his mission to get revenge on Lan Di, but first he has to find out how to find him, with the warhouse docks & the Mad Angels gang being his best leads.

Shenmue: The Movie

2001

2/Duo poster
7.6

The slow collapse of the relationship between an out-of-work actor and his girlfriend.

2/Duo

1997

Elephant Song poster
7.0

Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always wanted to be buried in the land rather than a cemetery, so that his body would be 'useful' - and now he's dead. Kanako and her boy enlist the help of a friendly florist with a small truck, steal the corpse, and head for the mountains.

Elephant Song

1994

The Artful Dodgers poster
10.0

Three young Japanese drop-outs are comically adrift in New York

The Artful Dodgers

1998

Ringo no usagi poster
NR

About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him

Ringo no usagi

1997

Ringo no usagi poster
NR

About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him

Ringo no usagi

1997

Ringo no usagi poster
NR

About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him

Ringo no usagi

1997

Mogura poster
NR

Mogura, a shut-in former musician, falls in love with a young cellist after seeing her photo in a magazine.

Mogura

1996

Isana no umi poster
NR

Renji grew up in a family that runs a pelagic fishing business and vaguely thinks about becoming a fisherman in the future. He is attracted to Kyoko, a new transfer student to his fisheries school who is knowledgeable about whales, but there is a big difference of opinion between Renji, who thinks whaling is wrong, and Kyoko, who advocates whale protection.

Isana no umi

1997

Pai Pati Roma poster
NR

A woman follows an inner journey from island to island in search of "Pai Pati Roma"

Pai Pati Roma

1994