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...

An 11-year-old boy who goes to Africa with his father in 1941. Because he is Japanese, the father is detained by the British. The boy joins up with a...

When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.

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

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he...

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation...

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

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

Four sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune and grievances in lives, they give support and...

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...

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

An entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a foreboding desert wasteland. As the story...

After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is...

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

Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche,...

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko of people gathering by a beautiful lake in Canada.

Absent-minded fifth-grader Yuta is sent to spend the summer with his grandfather, whom Yuta's parents think is becoming senile and could benefit from...

During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland...

An experimental film edited from footage of the Japanese countryside.

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