Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

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

Time travel film

After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a decade ago as a university student.

After his wife leaves him, middle-aged Yusaku contemplates suicide, but receives a call from old friend Kenichiro, whose wife is in a coma.

An animated film Obayashi made while still a child.

An animated short Obayashi made while still a child.

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

A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

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

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...

Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and takes a sojourn to where her true hometown for which she...

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

A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the...

A MAKING OF 天国にいちばん近い島/ The Island Closest to Heaven, narrated by Harada Tomoyo.

Comedy-suspense thriller about a girl, who investigates her sister's mysterious death.

A short visualization of a poem by Fukunaga Takehiko.

This film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role.

Travelling to his hometown, a stressed, middle-aged businessman dials an old classmate from a public phone, and reconnects with lost fragments of his...

An experimental film edited from footage of the Japanese countryside.