Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

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

A puppet animation Obayashi made while he was a teenager.

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko.

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

Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical...

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

Ryoko visits brother-in-law Koji to recover from her time at a mental hospital. But she becomes increasingly convinced that Koji's eight year old...

A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in...

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

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

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

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...

A short visualization of a poem by Fukunaga Takehiko.

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 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...

Time travel film

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...

This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, features behind-the-scenes footage and...