Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko, a bomb victim with a keloid scar on...

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

Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical...

A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

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...

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

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

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

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.

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...

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko.

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

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

An animated film Obayashi made while still a child.

An animated short Obayashi made while still a child.

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko of a collection of photos by Shinoyama Kishin of the Rio Carnival.

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

A woman and boy visit an ominous graveyard.