Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

It is the second work of the Oita trilogy of Obayashi . Following " Nigori Snow ", Ise Masazo draws a song written by composers and songwriter...

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

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...

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.

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 young couple go on a picnic in the forest, where the woman reveals that she is pregnant.

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

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.

A meditation on eating people and quiet waitresses.

An Obayashi film made with Takabayashi Yoichi.

A short scene of a mother and her little son playing ball games on a set of steps together.

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...

Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change...

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

A short visualization of a poem by Fukunaga Takehiko.

A puppet animation Obayashi made while he was a teenager.

A woman and boy visit an ominous graveyard.

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

Notes from the Labyrinth, a 60-minute documentary featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Ôbayashi and the cast...