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Farewell to our friend Kobayashi Masahiro !

September 8, 2022
Panos Kotzathanasis

It is with great sadness that we have just learned of the death of the Japanese director, faithful of the Festival International des Cinémas d’Asie de Vesoul, Kobayashi Masahiro (1954 – 2022) at the age of 68 years. 

President of the Jury in 2008, he was also three times in competition in 2002, 2011 and 2013 with The Man Who Walks on Snow, Haru’s Journey (Audience Award) and Japan’s Tragedy (Jury Award).

Two other of his major works: Bashing and The Rebirth were presented in his presence.

Pax Aeterna.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

My name is Panos Kotzathanasis and I am Greek. Being a fan of Asian cinema and especially of Chinese kung fu and Japanese samurai movies since I was a little kid, I cultivated that love during my adolescence, to extend to the whole of SE Asia.

Starting from my own blog in Greek, I then moved on to write for some of the major publications in Greece, and in a number of websites dealing with (Asian) cinema, such as Taste of Cinema, Hancinema, EasternKicks, Chinese Policy Institute, and of course, Asian Movie Pulse. in which I still continue to contribute.

In the beginning of 2017, I launched my own website, Asian Film Vault, which I merged in 2018 with Asian Movie Pulse, creating the most complete website about the Asian movie industry, as it deals with almost every country from East and South Asia, and definitely all genres.

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