Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change...

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...

Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.

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

Based on the comic book by Jūzō Yamasaki and Kei Sadayasu.

Comedy-suspense thriller about a girl, who investigates her sister's mysterious death.

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

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

The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series.

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

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

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko made while making a commercial for Hitachi.

A girl, Kalina, who lives in Belarus spends summer vacation at grandma's house in rural area. They village is very close to the area prohibited to...

Yuichi Kosaka is a salaried businessman in Ueda city. His achievements have not been improved recently, and he is betrayed by the manager of takada....

A meditation on eating people and quiet waitresses.

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

A puppet animation Obayashi made while he was a teenager.

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.