Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

This film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role.

A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a decade ago as a university student.

An unreliable narrator recounts the love story of a loan shark, his wife, and their recently released from jail childhood friend.

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...

Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters...

A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage...

An animated short Obayashi made while still a child.

A woman and boy visit an ominous graveyard.

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...

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...

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

Dives deep into the tragicomic world of the"towns-people" stand-ins working at Warp Station Edo, a popular shooting location for samurai dramas,...

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

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

Tanaka Yoshio, an ordinary salaryman, is always eager to impress his girlfriend Reiko, but his wallet is always empty. His only lifeline is his...

After meeting as college students in the cinema town of Seijo, husband and wife Nobuhiko and Kyoko Obayashi have gone on to direct and produce...

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

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

A program of five films on love and sex from the Japanese underground of the experimental cinema, assembled by avant-garde cineaste Takahiko Iimura,...