Yuto Kobayashi

Seaside Lover (2023)

As men and women around the age of 30 struggle to reach their dreams, they also go through trial and error in love. This work, which depicts the encounter and parting of such a man and woman. ...

One Cut in the Life (2020)

A rampage at a university, the students Yuka and Mai are frozen with fear. At gunpoint, the two perpetrators try to force them to decide which of them must die next. In a moment of distraction, Mai tries to escape but is badly injured by a shot in the back ...

Half End (2018)

Sharing (2014)

Memories can be blocked, but they can also be invented. Psychology professor Eiko works with people who were traumatized by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. But the topic affects her more personally than she wants to admit. Narrative structures be ...

The Elegant Life of Keiko's Teacher (2013)

Keiko, a beautiful Japanese teacher whose niceness makes her the butt of constant pranks, is propositioned by a student and reacts surprisingly. ...

Himawari -Okinawa wa Wasurenai, Ano Nichi no Sora o- (2013)

After an American helicopter crashes into a classroom in Okinawa International University, student Ryuichi is compelled to write a report on a similar accident 52 years ago, in 1959, when an American jet fighter crashed into his grandfather's elementary sc ...

2nd Virgin Road (2012)

The story is about Mayumi and a jobless youngster who enters her life. Mayumi is a rape victim, and is often haunted by the painful memories of her past. Mayumi chances upon this youngster, strikes a chord with him, and slowly shares her troubles and past ...

Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012)

In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the 2004 Chūetsu earthquakes, to report on the disaster; there, she learns about the experiences of its inhabitant ...

Yankee Teacher (2012)

"Tsukigaoka Gakuen" is a collection of inferior boycotts, fights, and bullying. One teacher, Mizuki Okochi, came to the cave of the problem children. A long time ago, Mizuki, who was scared of "Minagaroshi's red-flying feathers" and the bad guys, challenge ...

Bite Me If You Love Me (2011)

A girl obsessed with zombies kills her boyfriend and turns him into a... you guessed it! Then a fat Japanese Jason Vorhees shows up and a love triangle ensues. ...

River (2011)

Hikari's boyfriend is one of those killed in the Akihabara massacre incident. Suffering from the shock of her loss and unable to accept this reality, she cuts herself off from the outside world. She eventually manages to muster enough courage to visit Akih ...

Your Mom Is a Bitch! (2010)

College student Yu (Kobayashi Yuto) becomes friends with Fumie (Suzuki Sawa), a married woman who often comes to his store, but their relationship soon develops into something more. With very little romantic experience, he finds himself absorbed in this ad ...

Where Are You? (2009)

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. ...