Yoshio Kobayashi

Filmes

Riot in Gujo
Lighting Technician
Naoto Ogata plays Sadajiro, a young farmer fighting out the battle of the riot through to the end. Sadajiro's wife is played by Hiromi Iwasaki, his father is played by Go Kato and Ryuzo Hayashi plays a leader of the Riot. The Riot in Gujo is called one of the biggest three riots in the Edo Period as it took almost 5 years to settle and also involved the Edo government. This movie is a period film about the riot and Gujo farmers fighting for their tenacity of purpose. The farmers had suffered enough from heavy taxes and decided to rise up in riot when the domain lord, Yorikane, issued a new act, which practically forced tax increases. Asking the lord to retract the act, they pour down to the Hachiman Castle. For once they attain the repeal deed signed by the chief retainer. However the promise is broken. Now the farmers decide to make a direct plea to the Edo Residence…This film is full tension and breathless moments.
Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
Lighting Technician
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
Sukeban Deka the Movie 2: Counter-Attack of the Kazama Sisters
Lighting Technician
After the events of the previous film, the 17 years-old Sukeban Deka III, Yui Kazama, works for the Juvenile Security Bureau along with her older sisters Yuka and Yuma. This organization is led by politician Kuraudo Sekin, who fights juvenile crime in heavy-handed manners, to the extent to equip his student agents with triple-bladed yo-yo weapons. However, when Sekin's methods become too zealous, Yui quits the bureau and refuses to undertake undercover missions for them. It is soon discovered that Sekin's actual goal is to overthrow the Japanese government, and the Kazama sisters, along with a gang of young outcasts, have to stop him.
Surgical Designs in Flames
Lighting Technician
A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures.
Headphone Lullaby
Lighting Technician
The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.
The Imperial Japanese Empire
Lighting Technician
Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.
Curse
Lighting Technician
In a rural village with a poorly understood but long standing curse from the Dog God, outsiders from a major Tokyo mining corporation scouting for uranium destroy a small shrine and crush a dog under their jeep wheels. After one of the mining company employees marries the daughter of a prominent member of the village, the Dog God’s wrath boils over and people start to die. The village girl and mining company employee start a new life in Tokyo, but the Dog God possesses her and she is deemed mentally ill. The couple returns to the village to perform an exorcism, but it is unsuccessful. As the body count accumulates, the cause of and remedy for the curse becomes more opaque.
Dragon Princess
Lighting Technician
A polícia de Nova York procura um instrutor de karatê para seus membros, e fica uma decisão entre Hironobu Nikaido e Kazuma Higaki. Nikaido pretende acabar com esse impasse acabando com Higaki e tirando-o de seu caminho. Higaki é derrotado e fica perto da morte, mas sua vida é poupada por Nikaido que começa a dominar o mundo do karatê. Higaki planeja vingança e começa a treinar sua filha Yumi Higaki. Alguns anos depois, Higaki morre e sua filha Yumi vai atrás de Nikaido buscar a vingança de seu pai.
Himiko
Lighting Technician
A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk.