Movies: Nobuhiko Obayashi

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. Takada, who is related to the company's executives, is very strict with him. Every night late, Yuichi...

Dives deep into the tragicomic world of the"towns-people" stand-ins working at Warp Station Edo, a popular shooting location for samurai dramas, through a piercing study of a 63-year-old extra. Utilizing mockumentary stylings, this ambitious film for...

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family....

The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis....

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

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 a lot of commotion....

A mouse and his child, the two parts of a single small wind-up toy, go on a quest to become "self-winding"....

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

Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa....

A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which leads the two to live under the same roof....

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

Pocky, an upbeat high-schooler, is told she will die in three days by a psychic whose predictions always come true. Along the way, she talks about boyfriends with her two friends, meets a strange boy with heart disease, and regularly bumps into a ser...

A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV....

A story of two men, one recently bereaved, the other with a wife in a coma. From the popular song....

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko of a collection of photos by Shinoyama Kishin of the Rio Carnival....

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko....

An experimental film edited from footage of the Japanese countryside....

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....

A short visualization of a poem by Fukunaga Takehiko....

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