Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

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

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...

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...

Special message from director Nobuhiko Obayashi.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko.

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

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

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

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

An animated film Obayashi made while still a child.

Making of Nobuhiko Obayashi's TV Program in 1980 called...

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

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

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