Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

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,...

A puppet animation Obayashi made while he was a teenager.

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

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

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

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

An experimental film edited from footage of the Japanese countryside.

A meditation on eating people and quiet waitresses.

A non-narrative tribute to the seaside town of Onomichi, where Obayashi grew up and where most of these films were made.

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

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

An animated short Obayashi made while still a child.

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.

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

An Obayashi film made with Takabayashi Yoichi.

A girl, Kalina, who lives in Belarus spends summer vacation at grandma's house in rural area. They village is very close to the area prohibited to...

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko made while making a commercial for Hitachi.

A short visualization of a poem by Fukunaga Takehiko.