Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

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

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

In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the...

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...

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...

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

Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.

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

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 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...

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

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

A meditation on eating people and quiet waitresses.

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

Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical...

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

This film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role.

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

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