Miwako Kobayashi

Filmes

A Eterna Desculpa
Costume Design
A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.
Uma Pastelaria em Tóquio
Costume Design
Sentaro gere uma pequena pastelaria de dorayakis – uma especialidade japonesa que consiste em duas panquecas recheadas com doce de feijão (“an”, no original). Quando Tokue, uma senhora com cerca de 70 anos, se oferece para trabalhar na pastelaria, ele aceita com relutância. No entanto, Tokue rapidamente prova que a sua receita de “an” é mágica. Graças à sua receita secreta, o negócio de Sentaro floresce rapidamente. Com o tempo, Sentaro e Tokue abrem os seus corações, e desenvolvem uma relação de amizade que vai revelando também algumas feridas do passado.
Dreams for Sale
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After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off to a series of lonely women and defrauding them.
Vengeance Can Wait
Costume Design
Director Tominaga Masanori (Pandora's Box) brings Motoya Yukiko's offbeat play Ranbo to Taiki to the big screen in a juicy, neurotic tangle of love, hate and voyeurism. Hidenori (Asano Tadanobu) and Nanase (Minami) have lived together for ten years in a tense, platonic relationship. The wheels of change are set in motion when married couple Takao (Yamada Takayuki) and Azusa (Koike Eiko) move in next door. After Hidenori catches Nanase and Takao having an affair, he becomes obsessed with watching Nanase through a peephole, and planning his cruel revenge.
Crickets
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Kaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live a peaceful life in a house on the coast. There she takes care of an old deaf, dumb and blind man as if he were an insect, a child or a pet. He can’t do anything for himself, so she feeds him and accompanies him on his walks. This strong mutual dependency offers Kaoru an escape from society and allows her to free herself from restrictions imposed by common sense.
Strawberry Shortcakes
Costume Design
Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.
Babel
Costume Design
Um ônibus repleto de turistas atravessa uma região montanhosa do Marrocos. Entre os viajantes estão Richard (Brad Pitt) e Susan (Cate Blanchett), um casal de americanos. Ali perto os meninos Ahmed (Said Tarchani) e Youssef (Boubker At El Caid) manejam um rifle que seu pai lhes deu para proteger a pequena criação de cabras da família. Um tiro atinge o ônibus, ferindo Susan. A partir daí o filme mostra como este fato afeta a vida de pessoas em vários pontos diferentes do mundo: nos Estados Unidos, onde Richard e Susan deixaram seus filhos aos cuidados da babá mexicana; no Japão, onde um homem (Kôji Yakusho) tenta superar a morte trágica de sua mulher e ajudar a filha surda (Rinko Kinkuchi) a aceitar a perda; no México, para onde a babá (Adriana Barraza) acaba levando as crianças; e ali mesmo, no Marrocos, onde a polícia passa a procurar suspeitos de um ato terrorista.
A Day on the Planet
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Seven friends gather at a party in Kyoto to celebrate Masamichi's entry to graduate school. Maki & her boyfriend Nakazawa join the party and get drunk easily after the friendship reunion. Kate has a crush on one of the cute guy who doesn't have any interests on her though. The cheerful and unforgettable night is full of joy while the whales and the thief incidents also attract the attention of them. Before the sunrise, seven friends meet again on the beach so as to witness the fade of youth days.
Antenna
Costume Design
Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna".