Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

A puppet animation Obayashi made while he was a teenager.

This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, features behind-the-scenes footage and...

A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the...

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 of people gathering by a beautiful lake in Canada.

An animated short Obayashi made while still a child.

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.

Time travel film

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.

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 detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

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

Special message from director Nobuhiko Obayashi.

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

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

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.

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

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