AW: Cannes competition

[Roland Domenig]

What's interesting about Kobayashi is that most profiles in the West don't mention his works in the field of pink eiga. He not only wrote more than three dozen scripts for pink eiga (mostly for Sato Toshiki and Ueno Toshiya), but in 2000 he also directed a pink eiga, ONE WEEK (Ishhukan aiyoku nikki), which was also shown at the Udine film festival in 2001. 
What is even more curious is that the Website of Kobayashi's production company Monkey Town Productions lists all of his scripts for TV and radio and his CMs and music promotion videos, but makes not a single reference to the 40 something pink eiga for which he wrote scripts or the one he directed. The three P.G. awards he received in 1996, 1997 and 2000 as best pink eiga script writer are of course also not mentioned. Any mentioning of his (very successful) pink eiga career seems to have deliberately been avoided. 
Personally I prefer the script writer Kobayashi to the director Kobayashi. Some of the dialogues he wrote for Sato Toshiki and Ueno Toshiya are among the funniest I've heard in Japanese cinema.     

Roland Domenig
Institute of East Asian Studies
Vienna University
 


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Von: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu [mailto:owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu] Im Auftrag von Jason Gray
Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. April 2005 18:19
An: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Betreff: RE: Cannes competition

I've only seen Kobayashi's "Bootleg Film" ("Kaizokuban"), which I thought was pretty good and had a fantastic look.

http://members.aol.com/sarumachi/

His films sometimes show in Tokoyo complete with French subs.

The Japanese title is just katakana ("Basshingu") but there doesn't seem to be any info around yet.

jg