Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko.

An Obayashi film made with Takabayashi Yoichi.

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

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...

A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which...

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 detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

A special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient samurai warrior who is only six inches tall.

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

Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters...

Time travel film

Special message from director Nobuhiko Obayashi.

An animated film Obayashi made while still a child.

It is the second work of the Oita trilogy of Obayashi . Following " Nigori Snow ", Ise Masazo draws a song written by composers and songwriter...

Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing...

It is the 1950’s, and the protagonist, identified only as ‘I,’ has come from Tokyo to study, burdened by the high expectations of...

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

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...

A young couple go on a picnic in the forest, where the woman reveals that she is pregnant.

A woman and boy visit an ominous graveyard.