Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

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

The Japanese pop music duo Pink Lady are circus performers who show kindness toward a captured "monster," a sad, furry being (played by a man in a...

Special message from director Nobuhiko Obayashi.

Travelling to his hometown, a stressed, middle-aged businessman dials an old classmate from a public phone, and reconnects with lost fragments of his...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

A meditation on eating people and quiet waitresses.

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

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

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

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...

Film director Nobuhiko Obayashi went to Russia in 1992 and visited, with his crew, five families from five different cities and asked one member of...