Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

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...

Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her appearance...

A meditation on eating people and quiet waitresses.

This film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role.

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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 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...

Time travel film

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

A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

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 heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in...