Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.

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.

A woman and boy visit an ominous graveyard.

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...

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 made while making a commercial for Hitachi.

Pocky, an upbeat high-schooler, is told she will die in three days by a psychic whose predictions always come true. Along the way, she talks about...

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

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

A short visualization of a poem by Fukunaga Takehiko.