Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies
- 1977
House
House7.31977HD
Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She...
- 1982
The Unspoiled Diamond
The Unspoiled Diamond31982HD
A college student has an affair with a married, middle-aged teacher.
- 1998
Sada
Sada6.81998HD
The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.
- 1984
Kenya Boy
Kenya Boy5.41984HD
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...
- 1985
Miss Lonely
Miss Lonely6.91985HD
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,...
- 1983
The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
The Little Girl Who Conquered Time6.41983HD
Yoshiyama Kazuko is a third-year junior high school student. One day while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has...
- 2012
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
Casting Blossoms to the Sky6.62012HD
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the...
- 1993
Samurai Kids
Samurai Kids61993HD
A special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient samurai warrior who is only six inches tall.
- 1977
The Visitor in the Eye
The Visitor in the Eye61977HD
Komori Tiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day in training her coach hits the ball into her eye accidentally. She is taken to hospital...
- 2007
Switching – Goodbye Me
Switching – Goodbye Me6.52007HD
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...
- 2014
Seven Weeks
Seven Weeks8.62014HD
Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her appearance...
- 1985
Four Sisters
Four Sisters6.21985HD
Four sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune and grievances in lives, they give support and...
- 1990
Making of 'Dreams'
Making of 'Dreams'81990HD
This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, features behind-the-scenes footage and...
- 1982
Cute Devil
Cute Devil6.61982HD
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...
- 1979
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi5.71979HD
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known...
- 1992
The Rocking Horsemen
The Rocking Horsemen6.81992HD
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he...
- 2017
Hanagatami
Hanagatami7.22017HD
Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the...
- 1986
His Motorbike, Her Island
His Motorbike, Her Island7.61986HD
After a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a carefree girl Miyo, after teaching her to ride. When...
- 1966
Emotion
Emotion6.71966HD
Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters...
- 1998
Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel01998HD
The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series.