Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

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

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.

Time travel film

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 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...

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...

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

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

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

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 film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role.

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

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...

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

A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

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

Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko, a bomb victim with a keloid scar on...