Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a decade ago as a university student.

Based on the comic book by Jūzō Yamasaki and Kei Sadayasu.

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

Dives deep into the tragicomic world of the"towns-people" stand-ins working at Warp Station Edo, a popular shooting location for samurai dramas,...

This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, features behind-the-scenes footage and...

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

Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding...

People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to...

A story of two men, one recently bereaved, the other with a wife in a coma. From the popular song.

Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing...

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

The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series.

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

Nobuhiko Obayashi's short experimental film shows off persistence in film editing in the early 60s.

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.

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

Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.