Nobuhiko Obayashi Filmes

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he...

People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to...

A mouse and his child, the two parts of a single small wind-up toy, go on a quest to become "self-winding".

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

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

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

This film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role.

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

Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change...

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.

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

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.

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

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 of a collection of photos by Shinoyama Kishin of the Rio Carnival.

A puppet animation Obayashi made while he was a teenager.

A short visualization of a poem by Fukunaga Takehiko.

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

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