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Nobuhiko Obayashi

Nobuhiko Obayashi

Nobuhiko Obayashi (January 9, 1938 – April 10, 2020) was a Japanese director, screenwriter and editor of films and television advertisements who is well known for his surreal visual style. He began his career as a pioneering figure in Japanese experimental film during the 1960s before transitioning to directing more mainstream works such as television and feature films. Though he remains mostly unknown outside of Japan, he has made a prolific number of films in his 50 years of working with the medium.

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Known For

  • House
  • Switching – Goodbye Me
  • Lover, Come Back to Me
  • The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
  • The Stupid Teacher
  • Popeye's Treasure Island
  • King Kong
  • Youth・Cloud
  • An Eater
  • T-shi no gogo
  • Memories of the Sea = Sabishinbo, Introduction
  • Stampede Country
  • Orere orara
  • Happy Dinosaur's Album
  • The Drifting Classroom
  • School in the Crosshairs
  • Kenya Boy
  • Sada
  • Emotion
  • Casting Blossoms to the Sky
  • Scenery to Remember
  • The Discarnates
  • I Are You, You Am Me
  • The Rocking Horsemen
  • The Motive
  • The Deserted City
  • Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
  • Foreign Correspondent - The Case of a Filmmaker
  • Chizuko's Younger Sister
  • Farewell
  • Dandanko
  • Confession
  • Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
  • Miss Lonely
  • His Motorbike, Her Island
  • The Island Closest to Heaven
  • Complexe
  • Haruka, Nostalgia
  • One Summer's Day
  • The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
  • Seven Weeks
  • Beijing Watermelon
  • Casting Blossoms to the Sky: A Movie Document
  • Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
  • The Last Snow
  • Goodbye for Tomorrow
  • Four Sisters
  • Take Me Away!
  • Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
  • Onomichi
  • The Girl in the Picture
  • Remembrance
  • Nakasendo
  • Thursday
  • Making of 'Dreams'
  • April Fish
  • Cute Devil
  • Russian Lullabies
  • Samurai Kids
  • Obayashi Nobuhiko's Special Message
  • Cheers in the Palm!
  • From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
  • Hanagatami
  • The Strange Pair
  • Shinobugawa
  • Turning Point
  • Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
  • My Heart Belongs to Daddy
  • Why She Won't Marry
  • Labyrinth of Cinema
  • Song of Goodbye
  • The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
  • I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
  • The Stupid Teacher
  • Legend of the Cat Monster