Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

This is a work of Nobuhiko Obayashi when he was around 30 years old. This semi-documentary from the perspective of a young designer visiting Japan...

Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association

A short visualization of a poem by Fukunaga Takehiko.

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 short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko made while making a commercial for Hitachi.

Making of Nobuhiko Obayashi's TV Program in 1980 called...

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

This is a humorous depiction of the escapades between a young lady who is forced into a political marriage and a university student who falls in love...

This film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role.

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

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...

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

A filmmaker recalls his youth in the town of Onomichi. In the present, he shoots a film in Onomichi alongside his cast, crew and family.

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

An Obayashi film made with Takabayashi Yoichi.

It is the 1950’s, and the protagonist, identified only as ‘I,’ has come from Tokyo to study, burdened by the high expectations of...

Director Nobuhiko Obayashi is often dubbed "the cinematic magician." 2 and a half years ago, he was diagnosed with cancer with 3 months to live. But...

A girl, Kalina, who lives in Belarus spends summer vacation at grandma's house in rural area. They village is very close to the area prohibited to...