Japanese director Kobayashi Masahiro dies aged 68 after battle with cancer

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Japanese film director Kobayashi Masahiro has died aged 68.

The filmmaker, whose work was often featured at Cannes Film Festival, was known for films including Bashing and The Rebirth.The director did not want a funeral and has been mourned by his family.His directorial debut was in 1996 with Closing Time, which won the grand prize at the first Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival.

Four of his films have screened at Cannes – Kaizokuban Bootleg Film in 1999, Man Walking on Snow in 2001, and Koroshi in 2000.His final film was released in 2017 It followed a political activist in the Middle East who was kidnapped and used as a hostage – before returning to her hometown and being mistreated for ‘causing trouble’.Japan decides it's probably time to stop using floppy disks

The director’s film The Rebirth, which sees the father of a murdered girl and the mother of the killer meet at a countryside inn, was also widely acclaimed. Kobayashi released his last film, Lear on the Shore, in 2017. It starred Nakadai Tatsuya as a man suffering with dementia.

 

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