Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

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

A woman and boy visit an ominous graveyard.

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

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...

An animated short Obayashi made while still a child.

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...

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

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.

Special message from director Nobuhiko Obayashi.

Time travel film

Interview-based documentary looking back on the making and reception of Nobuhiko Ōbayashi's 1977 film House.

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

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

An experimental film edited from footage of the Japanese countryside.

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

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 detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

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

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