Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

A meditation on eating people and quiet waitresses.

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...

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....

This film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role.

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...

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

A filmmaker recalls his youth in the town of Onomichi. In the present, he shoots a film in Onomichi alongside his cast, crew and family.

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

An animated short Obayashi made while still a child.

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko.

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

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

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

A promotional movie that was shown to Kirin Brewery factory visitors at the time. Japanese history and family memories intertwine with a musical...

Nobuhiko Obayashi's 2001 work "From the theme of Mahoroba". Obayashi filmed the works of Genjiro Ohno, a photographer who has been photographing 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...

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