Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

Time travel film

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

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

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

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...

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

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

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko.

A woman and boy visit an ominous graveyard.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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