Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

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...

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...

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

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...

Comedy-suspense thriller about a girl, who investigates her sister's mysterious death.

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

Travelling to his hometown, a stressed, middle-aged businessman dials an old classmate from a public phone, and reconnects with lost fragments of his...

Special message from director Nobuhiko Obayashi.

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...

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

A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the...

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...

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

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

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko.

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

A meditation on eating people and quiet waitresses.

Time travel film

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

A young woman moves in with her estranged father after her mother passes away.