Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

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

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.

Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in...

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...

A woman and boy visit an ominous graveyard.

A promotional movie that was shown to Kirin Brewery factory visitors at the time. Japanese history and family memories intertwine with a musical...

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

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

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

Ryoko visits brother-in-law Koji to recover from her time at a mental hospital. But she becomes increasingly convinced that Koji's eight year old...

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko.

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...

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

An experimental film edited from footage of the Japanese countryside.

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

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...

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

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

An unreliable narrator recounts the love story of a loan shark, his wife, and their recently released from jail childhood friend.