Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

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

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

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko.

A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

A story of the everyday life of a couple living together, ordinary but full of warmth and love. Starring Miura and Yamaguchi's first movie since...

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

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

Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko, a bomb victim with a keloid scar on...

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...

Comedy-suspense thriller about a girl, who investigates her sister's mysterious death.

Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in...

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...

An experimental film edited from footage of the Japanese countryside.

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

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

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 short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko made while making a commercial for Hitachi.