Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

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

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

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

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.

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

An animated film Obayashi made while still a child.

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

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.

An animated short Obayashi made while still a child.

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

A puppet animation Obayashi made while he was a teenager.

An Obayashi film made with Takabayashi Yoichi.

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