Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

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

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...

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 special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient samurai warrior who is only six inches tall.

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

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known...

A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.

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

This film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role.

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...

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

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

A woman and her bridegroom are found murdered in their bed the day after their wedding. It had snowed overnight and the killer left no tracks. It is...

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...

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...

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

While Ryoko is in Vienna studying music, her boyfriend dies in a traffic accident. Ryoko believes that she has psychic powers which killed him, and...

A meditation on eating people and quiet waitresses.