The famous Kobayashi Maru test given at Starfleet Academy in the second Star Trek movie.

Competitive eating champion Takeru Kobayashi races against Kodiak bear for wiener eating throne!!

Joey Chestnut defeats Takeru Kobayashi for the first time at the 2007 Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest at Coney Island (held annually on July 4th), with a new world record of 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes. (barf!) Ah, yes. U.S. gluttony is alive and well...!

Kazuhiko Kobayashi took photos from the window of a Shinkansen and made this hypnotic animation, "Gate Vision", using only simple computer processing. Starting on the station platform, the video becomes a fast-spinning kaleidoscope as the train moves into the countryside toward Tokyo.

Or: How Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut do it.

Kwaidan is a 1964 Japanese anthology film directed by Masaki Kobayashi; the title means 'ghost story'. It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folk tales. The film consists... more inside

Warning spoilers for those that haven't seen The Usual Suspects. This is the great scene at the end of the movie when Virgil Kent leaves the interview. "He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father... more inside

Kentaro Kobayashi (from Rahmens) joins with the a graphics design group called teevee graphics to form Namikibashi. This is from one of their live performances.