Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

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

A meditation on eating people and quiet waitresses.

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

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...

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...

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

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...

An animated short Obayashi made while still a child.

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 short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko.

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

An animated film Obayashi made while still a child.

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

Nobuhiko Obayashi's 2001 work "From the theme of Mahoroba". Obayashi filmed the works of Genjiro Ohno, a photographer who has been photographing the...

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

Director Nobuhiko Obayashi is often dubbed "the cinematic magician." 2 and a half years ago, he was diagnosed with cancer with 3 months to live. But...

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