Kobayashi Brothers, History
Photo by Sho Ishiduki
Katsuto Kobayashi (elder brother) IMDb Info
- 1985 Started working at a TV production company in 1985.
Began working as an assistant director. - 1989 Began working as an assistant director. Became independent and started a TV production company with a friend. Since then, he has been active as a TV director.
- At the same time as starting a TV program production company, he formed the theater company Ozma with his younger brother Kenji, and began performing original works in parallel with program production.
- 2005 Katsuto and his younger brother Kenji devoted themselves to filmmaking at Jungle Walk.
Major Works
- NHK BS-1 "Sekai Waga Kokoro no Tabi / Costa Rica" (1995, ducumentary, later published as a book)
- TV Tokyo "Asa no Joho Wide / Money Life" (1996~99, only this corner was published as a book during the broadcast period)
- TV Tokyo "Gaia no Yoake (Dawn of Gaia) / UNIQLO" (2004, got the third highest viewer rating at the time and was also partially published in book form)
- BSi "America: The Summer of the Harvest Contractors" (2005, documentary, NHK offered to produce it after it aired)
- Two short documentaries produced at the request of the local government won the Special Jury Prize at the "Rural Age Film Festival" for two consecutive years.
Photo by Sho Ishiduki
Kenji Kobayashi (younger brother) IMDb Info
- 1988 he became a resarch student at the Haiyu-za training school.
Since his time at the training school, he has appeared in movies, TV show reporters, commercials, and dramas. - 1990 Formed Ozma Theater Company. Worked as a producer and actor.
- 2000 Established Ozma Produce, Representative Director
- 2001 The short film "Death at a frontline" (1996, the first movie produced by the brothers) was the trigger, he became acquainted with Hisao Kurosawa, then president of Kurosawa Production. On the recommendation of Mr.Kurosawa, I joined "Kurosawa Production" for the next few years and worked as a producer. At the suggestion of Mr. Kurosawa, he worked as an assistant at Kurosawa Production for several years.
- 2004 Established Jungle Walk and Representative Director
- 2008 Established Jungle Walk USA
Major appearances
- TV Asahi "Kensaku Morita's Hot Blooded TV" (1991, regular reporter)
- V-Cinema "CC Girls First Run - Embracing the Wind" (1992, as Akira)
- "God of Tokyo" directed by Ayana Osada(1992,starring)
- Masahiro Shinoda's film "Sharaku"(1995, Acting/Producing)
Ozma Theater Company, Ozma Produce
Stage Performance Record
- 1990 "Portrait of Hinako"
(written and directed by Katsuto , produced by Kenji)
“The Man of Steel”
(written and directed by Katsuto, produced and performed by Kenji)
“A Summer Farther Than Dreams”
(written and directed by Katsuto, produced and performed by Kenji)
- 1991 "Detective Story"
(produced by Kenji only)
“Drifting Moon”
(written and directed by Katsuhito, produced and performed by Kenji)
"Dog Sleeping in the Wind"
(written by Katsuto, produced and directed by Kenji)
- 1993 “Kinopio!”
(Written and directed by Katsuto, produced and performed by Kenji)
- 1994 "I don't have to do it”
(Production/Kenji Kobayashi)
- 1995 "In the Room of the Blue Moon"
(written and directed by Katsuto, produced and performed by Kenji)
- 1996 "Eiga-kan at 1:00 a.m.”
(written and directed by Katsuto Kobayashi, produced and performed by Kenji,
in collaboration with the short film “Sen-shi")
