Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

Aiko 16 years old is a novel by Akemi Hotta, set in Nagoya this story depicts the school life of Aiko Mita, a high school student who belongs to the...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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 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...

Komori Chiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day while training, her coach hits a ball into her eye on accident. At the hospital, the news...

A single mother uses marriage as a business, a way to make money and put food on the table. She regularly patronizes a bar, where she's friendly with...

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...

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

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...

A puppet animation Obayashi made while he was a teenager.

Time travel film

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...

After his wife leaves him, middle-aged Yusaku contemplates suicide, but receives a call from old friend Kenichiro, whose wife is in a coma.

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...

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...

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