Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

Obayashi 8mm short about a man who reminisces about a girl in his past (played by Obayashi's soon-to-be wife Kyoko).

Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko, a bomb victim with a keloid scar on...

An unreliable narrator recounts the love story of a loan shark, his wife, and their recently released from jail childhood friend.

Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters...

A puppet animation Obayashi made while he was a teenager.

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko of people gathering by a beautiful lake in Canada.

A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

After meeting as college students in the cinema town of Seijo, husband and wife Nobuhiko and Kyoko Obayashi have gone on to direct and produce...

Comedy-suspense thriller about a girl, who investigates her sister's mysterious death.

Nobuhiko Obayashi's 2001 work "From the theme of Mahoroba". Obayashi filmed the works of Genjiro Ohno, a photographer who has been photographing the...

A meditation on eating people and quiet waitresses.

An experimental film edited from footage of the Japanese countryside.

A MAKING OF 天国にいちばん近い島/ The Island Closest to Heaven, narrated by Harada Tomoyo.

Travelling to his hometown, a stressed, middle-aged businessman dials an old classmate from a public phone, and reconnects with lost fragments of his...

Interview-based documentary looking back on the making and reception of Nobuhiko Ōbayashi's 1977 film House.

A comprehensive document of the six-month production of "Casting Blossoms to the Sky," mixing truth and fiction.

A non-narrative tribute to the seaside town of Onomichi, where Obayashi grew up and where most of these films were made.

An animated film Obayashi made while still a child.

Tanaka Yoshio, an ordinary salaryman, is always eager to impress his girlfriend Reiko, but his wallet is always empty. His only lifeline is his...

Special message from director Nobuhiko Obayashi.