Writing

Hirotoshi Kobayashi

Born

1960-03-29 (66)

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Kobayashi Hirotoshi is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist born in Tokyo.

Known for

Death Note: L Change the WorLd poster
6.0

"The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are only 23 days left and without his best partner Watari, L has to solve the case all by himself for the very first time.

Death Note: L Change the WorLd

2008

Sylvanian Families: The Movie poster
6.0

In the enchanting village of Sylvania, Freya, a sweet Chocolate Rabbit girl, tackles two fun tasks for the Star Festival: picking the "Tree of the Year" and finding a birthday gift for her mom. With her adorable animal friends, she goes on a joyful adventure, learning about friendship and giving.

Sylvanian Families: The Movie

2023

Ultraman X The Movie: Here He Comes! Our Ultraman poster
6.4

When realty TV host Carlos Kurozaki breaks into a mysterious underground pyramid for a television event, he removes a special gem. . . and unwittingly releases a diabolical monster called Zaigorg! The evil creature wants Kurozaki's gem, so it spawns an army of giant kaijus to get it! It's up to the famous superheroes Ultraman X, Ultraman Tiga, and the one and only original Ultraman to stop the worldwide monster war!

Ultraman X The Movie: Here He Comes! Our Ultraman

2016

Crossroads poster
7.0

Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.

Crossroads

2011

River of First Love poster
6.8

8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak constitution and lost her husband years ago. She takes care of her son lovingly but sometimes strictly, on her own. Shimpei's childhood sweetheart, Sayuri, is deaf, but somehow they can understand each other and they always spend time together.

River of First Love

2004

Wasao poster
6.8

Wasao, an Akita dog in Aomori Prefecture that became famous as an ugly-yet-cute dog from a traveller's blog. Heartwarming drama starring Wasao himself turns part of the life of this former stray into an original story. Setsuko, who runs a grilled-squid shop in a fishing village at the foot of the Shirakami mountains, decides to take in a large dog with a long, unruly fur that has shown up in town. She names the dog Wasao and showers it with affection, but Wasao at that time doesn't take to Setsuko.

Wasao

2011

Behind the camera

Death Note: L Change the WorLd poster
6.0

"The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are only 23 days left and without his best partner Watari, L has to solve the case all by himself for the very first time.

Death Note: L Change the WorLd

2008

Sylvanian Families: The Movie poster
6.0

In the enchanting village of Sylvania, Freya, a sweet Chocolate Rabbit girl, tackles two fun tasks for the Star Festival: picking the "Tree of the Year" and finding a birthday gift for her mom. With her adorable animal friends, she goes on a joyful adventure, learning about friendship and giving.

Sylvanian Families: The Movie

2023

Ultraman X The Movie: Here He Comes! Our Ultraman poster
6.4

When realty TV host Carlos Kurozaki breaks into a mysterious underground pyramid for a television event, he removes a special gem. . . and unwittingly releases a diabolical monster called Zaigorg! The evil creature wants Kurozaki's gem, so it spawns an army of giant kaijus to get it! It's up to the famous superheroes Ultraman X, Ultraman Tiga, and the one and only original Ultraman to stop the worldwide monster war!

Ultraman X The Movie: Here He Comes! Our Ultraman

2016

Crossroads poster
7.0

Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.

Crossroads

2011

River of First Love poster
6.8

8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak constitution and lost her husband years ago. She takes care of her son lovingly but sometimes strictly, on her own. Shimpei's childhood sweetheart, Sayuri, is deaf, but somehow they can understand each other and they always spend time together.

River of First Love

2004

Wasao poster
6.8

Wasao, an Akita dog in Aomori Prefecture that became famous as an ugly-yet-cute dog from a traveller's blog. Heartwarming drama starring Wasao himself turns part of the life of this former stray into an original story. Setsuko, who runs a grilled-squid shop in a fishing village at the foot of the Shirakami mountains, decides to take in a large dog with a long, unruly fur that has shown up in town. She names the dog Wasao and showers it with affection, but Wasao at that time doesn't take to Setsuko.

Wasao

2011

Junji Inagawa's the Story of Terror poster
NR

First "The Story of Terror" film by Junji Inagawa.

Junji Inagawa's the Story of Terror

1997

Pachislot Strategy King 1: GET LUCK poster
NR

Salaryman Kashiwagi Kyosuke is left with massive debts after being deceived by a business partner. Desperate, he discovers a surprising talent for pachislot and hopes to pay off his debts through his winnings. After meeting a mysterious girl named Kurumi, he learns her analytical winning strategies and begins winning consistently—but unexpected challenges soon arise.

Pachislot Strategy King 1: GET LUCK

1999

Pachislot Strategy King 2: GET LUCK poster
NR

Daisuke, a master pachislot player with flawless timing, is briefly detained by police over a minor incident. While he is away, the pachislot parlor he and his friends frequent is targeted by cheating gamblers. Unable to stop them without Daisuke, his friends struggle until he returns and challenges the leader of the cheaters to a one-on-one showdown, revealing his ultimate pachislot techniques.

Pachislot Strategy King 2: GET LUCK

2000

Black Jack: The Two Doctors in Black poster
6.0

The mega-corporate Daedalus Group is under attack by a small group of activists known as the Ghost of Icarus. While taking care of some of the victims of the bombing, Black Jack encounters Dr. Kiriko, also known as Death Incarnate, who just like him, asks his patients huge sums of money but instead of saving them, he offers them a painless death. When the activist group requests both doctors’ collaboration, Black Jack finds himself caught in a spiral of life, death and treason while trying to save his patients' lives and avoid the breaking of a biological war that could destroy humanity.

Black Jack: The Two Doctors in Black

2005

Cursed poster
4.7

Employees at a convenience store must get to the bottom of supernatural goings-on occurring within their workplace.

Cursed

2004

Danger Dolls poster
5.9

A quartet of cute idol singers moonlight as butt-kicking action heroines. When extraterrestrial invaders threaten the safety of the Earth, after an earthquake unleashes them from an alternate dimension, the Danger Dolls become humanity's only hope for survival. The team infiltrates the evil cult behind the invasion and must use their swords and their fists to smash the invading army.

Danger Dolls

2014

School Days with a Pig poster
7.1

A school teacher suggests to his class that they ought to raise a pig together and eat it when it grows up.

School Days with a Pig

2008

Eko Eko Azarak: Awakening poster
5.8

The fourth movie in the highly sucessful Eko Eko Azarak series. Following the events of the second movie, Misa discovers, along with the rest of Japan, the strength of her newly acquired powers when she and her friends are attacked in the woods…

Eko Eko Azarak: Awakening

2001

Blooming Again poster
8.0

After the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled "Shinibana" containing a plan to tunnel into and steal 1.7 billion yen from a bank.

Blooming Again

2004

The Land Beyond the Starry Sky poster
8.5

When Akio Mori is almost hit by a truck, his friend Makoto Ozaki does everything he can to save him. Since then, Akio has been having the strangest and most recurring dream of a beautiful girl appearing before him. He has been having this dream for two months, and the girl's identity has always been a mystery until now. Noticing the girl from his dreams passing by him in real life, Akio is shocked when she runs up to him, hugs him, and suddenly disappears. Completely perplexed by the experience, Akio returns home, but instead of finding comfort, he is forced to face an abrupt truth when, walking to his house, he sees a photograph of his funeral on display. Realizing for the first time that he did not survive the accident from which he believed Ozaki saved him, Akio decides that the only thing he can do is ask his best friend for help.

The Land Beyond the Starry Sky

2021

Enoshima Prism poster
5.1

Shuta, Saku and Michiru have been best friends since they were kids. Tragedy strikes the friends when during the winter of 2010, Saku dies from a heart attack. After Saku's death, Shuta and Michiru become more distant.

Enoshima Prism

2013

Enoshima Clown poster
NR

A MOVIE IN THE 8mm Film. By Akiyoshi Imazeki

Enoshima Clown

2018

Green Requiem poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Green Requiem

1988

Red Crow and the Ghost Ship poster
7.0

A fantastic adventure of a brother and sister flying a ghost ship, guided by a red crow, in search for an old captain. The ghost ship was designed by Hayao Miyazaki and the red crow was done by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

Red Crow and the Ghost Ship

1989

Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death poster
7.1

Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki. She works for a manufacturing company in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It’s time for the Reaper to go to work.

Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death

2008

Railways poster
7.0

A heartwarming tale about the turning point in the life of an elite business man in his fifties and a local train that has been running since 1911. Hajime is in line to be the next head of a prominent electronics company. He toils day and night over his work and has no time for his family. But one day, his mother in Shimane falls ill, and his best friend dies in an accident. Grief-stricken, Hajime returns home, where memories of his childhood dream come back to him. He had always wanted to be a train conductor and drive the local "bataden" Ichibata Electric Railway.

Railways

2010

Looking for poster
NR

Natsuko's mother is hospitalized and only has six months to live. Her last wish is to see her father, who left her 20 years ago. Natsuko sets out to find him.

Looking for

1998

Signal poster
6.5

University student Keisuke returns to his hometown during his summer holiday and takes a part-time job at a run-down movie theater. However, his boss Ruka, a projectionist who lives on the premises, has not set foot outside in three years, and always falls into a deep depression on Mondays. Keisuke feels himself becoming attracted to the mysterious Ruka, but...

Signal

2012

trancemission poster
NR

Matsudo leads a normal life working in the futures market. But after receiving a promotion, he loses consciousness. He finds that he has become part of some wicked human experiment. As the scalpel is slowly inserted into his brain, he loses his past memory and even control of his body

trancemission

1999

Cherry Blossom Memories poster
8.0

“Sakura no Ame” is a song viewed more than 4.2 million times in “niconico” video sharing website in Japan. After the release of the song by Vocaloid-virtual-idle Hatsune Miku, this heart touching song became a standard for graduations and now it has become a live-action movie. The story is based on a best seller novel “Sakura no Ame” (PHP Institute, February 2012) which 200 thousand copies are printed and was inspired by the song itself. Many characters such as teachers and students seen in the story are inspired by the song sung by a 16 year-old high school student, Vocaloid, Hatsune Miku.

Cherry Blossom Memories

2016

Sacrifice Dilemma poster
NR

It's graduation day. Junichi Shinohara shows up at school following a prolonged absence, to find a gigantic "pit" dug in the middle of the campus and all his classmates gathered in the classroom. Then, a strange message comes over the PA system. "In one hour, everyone will die. There is only one way to survive. You must offer a sacrifice." At first, Shinohara, Rika Suzuki and others think it's some sort of bad joke. But when the first victim is claimed, they realize it's a terrifying reality...

Sacrifice Dilemma

2013

Sacrifice Dilemma: Second Part poster
6.0

A high school graduating class is forced into a sadistic game threatening certain death to all unless they offer one of their own as sacrifice.

Sacrifice Dilemma: Second Part

2013

Aka-suika ki-suika poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aka-suika ki-suika

1982

Y.O.U Yamabiko Ongaku Doukoukai poster
NR

At the behest of a friend, an unsung rock artist takes on the role of a substitute teacher and finds himself in the picturesque, seaside town of Amanohashidate, located in Kyoto Prefecture. This unorthodox educator, driven by personal motivations, endeavors to forge connections with students grappling with various challenges through the universal language of music. Together, they set their sights on the ‘Sneaker Age’ club contest, aspiring not just to perform but to resonate deeply with their audience, intertwining their hearts through the harmonies of their shared passion.

Y.O.U Yamabiko Ongaku Doukoukai

2013

Tokyo Bomb poster
NR

Nikkatsu Home Video release.

Tokyo Bomb

2000

Ao sugiru, ao poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ao sugiru, ao

2023

Public Security Police Investigator poster
NR

Ken Kariba, who was transferred to the Public Security Department of the Metropolitan Police Department, was investigating allegations of kidnapping of Japanese groups in Europe amid a series of explosions in various parts of Japan and the spread of fear of terrorist attacks with bombs. It eventually led to a series of terrorist attacks and, gradually, to a great conspiracy.

Public Security Police Investigator

2007

Nationwide Conquest: The Spirit of the Tekiya poster
NR

It depicts a world overflowing with the manly spirit of the stall vendors who run the festival. Kanji, the son who comes to inherit Kantaro’s stall-vendor business, heads to Niigata in order to save fellow stall vendors who are being attacked one after another.

Nationwide Conquest: The Spirit of the Tekiya

2001

Meg Lion poster
NR

A special effects science fiction comedy starring Mami Hase.

Meg Lion

2020

Negative Happy Chain Saw Edge poster
6.1

One day, apathetic high school student Yosuke meets a beautiful girl named Eri. Eri does battle every night with an indestructible, chainsaw-wielding maniac, “Chainsaw Man”. As Yosuke and Eri bond, he eventually joins the fight. Features CG effects by the talents behind the “Death Note” series. Based on the best-selling novel by Tatsuhiko Takimoto.

Negative Happy Chain Saw Edge

2008

Tamami: The Baby's Curse poster
5.9

A beautiful girl, Yōko, gets lost one night during an air raid and is taken in by an orphanage. Eventually, she is reunited with her own family and goes home to live with them. But there, an unexpected fate awaits her as she is subjected to horrific brutality from these people who are tortured by a past mistake.

Tamami: The Baby's Curse

2008

Junji Inagawa's the Story of Terror II poster
NR

Second "The Story of Terror" film by Junji Inagawa.

Junji Inagawa's the Story of Terror II

1998

The Man Who Got Picked Up by a Stray Cat poster
NR

A man working for a publishing company becomes unable to force himself to go to work anymore. His wife is about to get fed up with him, when he happens to meet a black stray cat in a park. It's thanks to the cat that his life is slowly starting to change for the better.

The Man Who Got Picked Up by a Stray Cat

2019

Prisoner No. 07: Reina poster
4.4

Hanako Nanjo stars in this sexy, violent film from director Kosuke Suzuki (Stop the Bitch Campaign). She commits a crime to help her sister in prison, only to discover that that politicians and prominent business men are using the prison for their own desires! Now she's desperately looking for a way out, can she do it?

Prisoner No. 07: Reina

2006