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

The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.

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...

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

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 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...

A meditation on eating people and quiet waitresses.

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

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

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

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

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...

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 Obayashi film made with Takabayashi Yoichi.

A short visualization of a poem by Fukunaga Takehiko.

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

An experimental film edited from footage of the Japanese countryside.

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