Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in...

Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and takes a sojourn to where her true hometown for which she...

Pocky, an upbeat high-schooler, is told she will die in three days by a psychic whose predictions always come true. Along the way, she talks about...

A program of five films on love and sex from the Japanese underground of the experimental cinema, assembled by avant-garde cineaste Takahiko Iimura,...

A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

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

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.

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

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

An experimental film edited from footage of the Japanese countryside.

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

A puppet animation Obayashi made while he was a teenager.

Film director Nobuhiko Obayashi went to Russia in 1992 and visited, with his crew, five families from five different cities and asked one member of...

An animated film Obayashi made while still a child.

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

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

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...

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