Nobuhiko Obayashi — Director (28)
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The Discarnates (1988) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban
異人たちとの夏
director: 大林宣彦 actor: 风间杜夫 / 秋吉久美子 …
other title: 異人たちとの夏 / Les Désincarnés …
Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to a 'Rakugo' show, where a friendly man in the audience invites him home. Harada is puzzled at the strong resemblance of this man and his wife to his own parents, who were killed nearly 30 years ago when he was twelve.
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Lonely heart (1985) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
さびしんぼう
director: 大林宣彦 actor: 富田靖子 / 尾美利德 …
other title: 寂寞的人 / さびしんぼう …
寺庙住持的独生子井上广树是个酷爱摄影的高中二年级学生，而母亲达子总是嘱咐他做作业、练钢琴，让他十分不耐烦。他爱慕着隔壁女校的橘百合子，总在放学后用望远镜看她弹钢琴，因其寂寥的神情，广树将其称作“寂寞人”。庙里大扫除的时候，广树和朋友们不小心弄乱了母亲少女时代的照片。
第二天，班上出现了一个奇怪的女同学，外号叫作“寂寞人”。同学们到广树家玩，“寂寞人”和达子发生口角，奇怪的是打了她，达子反而会感到疼痛。广树终于抓住机会结识了百合子，两人相处甚欢。然而情人节那天，广树却收到了百合子要求分手的信。同时，“寂寞人”也来拜访向广树告别。两天后，达子在走廊上拣到一张自己16岁时的照片，广树一瞥之间竟发觉照片上的正是“寂寞人”……
大林宣彦监督「尾道三部曲」第三部，本片根据山中恒的小说《有点奇怪的她》改编，讲述了一个甘美青涩的青春幻想故事。
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Us Two (1991) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB
ふたり
director: 大林宣彦 actor: 石田光 / 中岛朋子 …
other title: 两个人 / ふたり …
The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter Mika is suddenly in a dangerous situation, Chizuko returns as a ghost to save her; reunited with her sister, Mika begins spending time with Chizuko again.
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House (1977) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
HOUSE ハウス
6.9 (9 ratings) director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Kimiko Ikegami / Kumiko Ohba …
other title: Hausu / House - Hausu …
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 invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.
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Bound For The Fields The Mountains And The Seacoast (1986) [Movie] Douban
野ゆき山ゆき海べゆき
director: 大林宣彦 actor: 鹫尾伊沙子 / 林泰文 …
other title: 原野、山峰、海滩 / 野ゆき山ゆき海べゆき
佐藤春夫の自伝的小説『わんぱく時代』の映画化で、戦争の影が忍び寄る頃の尾道を舞台に、古き良き時代のわんぱく坊主たちが野を駆け、山を登り、海辺を走る元気いっぱいの活躍を描く。大林監督の“尾道“ものの集大成ともいえる作品。カラー版とモノクロ版が作られ、別々に公開された。
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Beijing Watermelon (1989) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
北京的西瓜
director: 大林宣彦 actor: 柳原晴郎 / 本格尔 …
other title: 北京的西瓜 / Pekin no suika …
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 when he encounters Li, a poor college student from China.
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I Are You, You Am Me (1982) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban
転校生
director: 大林宣彦 actor: 尾美利德 / 小林聪美 …
other title: 転校生 / La Nouvelle de la classe …
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.
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Labyrinth of Cinema (2020) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
海辺の映画館－キネマの玉手箱
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Takuro Atsuki / Takahito Hosoyamada …
other title: Labyrinth Of Cinema / 海辺の映画館－キネマの玉手箱
When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.
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Hanagatami (2017) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
花筐
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Shunsuke Kubozuka / Shinnosuke Mitsushima …
other title: 花筐 / 花筐 HANAGATAMI …
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 seaside's nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town's other extraordinary adolescents as they all contend with the war's gravitational pull.
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School in the Crosshairs (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
ねらわれた学園
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Hiroko Yakushimaru / Ryôichi Takayanagi …
other title: ねらわれた学園 / L'École visée …
Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi student enforcers, Yuka and her friends vow to stop her. But behind it all is a mysterious force that will put Yuka's powers to the ultimate test!
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The Little Girl Who Conquered Time (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
時をかける少女
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Tomoyo Harada / Ryôichi Takayanagi …
other title: 時をかける少女 / The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
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 the power to travel through time.
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The Island Closest to Heaven (1984) [Movie] TMDB
天国にいちばん近い島
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Tomoyo Harada / Miyoko Akaza …
other title: 天国にいちばん近い島
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.
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Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012) [Movie] TMDB
この空の花 長岡花火物語
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Yasuko Matsuyuki / Masahiro Takashima …
other title: この空の花 長岡花火物語
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 2004 Chūetsu earthquakes, to report on the disaster; there, she learns about the experiences of its inhabitants and stumbles upon a stage play written by an enigmatic student of her ex-boyfriend.
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Seven Weeks (2014) [Movie] TMDB
野のなななのか
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Tōru Shinagawa / Takako Tokiwa …
other title: 野のなななのか
Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her appearance gradually exposes wartime secrets and Mitsuo's unknown past.
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979) [Movie] TMDB
金田一耕助の冒険
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Ikko Furuya / Kunie Tanaka …
other title: 金田一耕助の冒険
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
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他的摩托，她的岛 (1986) [Movie] Douban
彼のオートバイ、彼女の島
director: 大林宣彦 actor: 原田贵和子 / 渡边典子 …
other title: 彼のオートバイ、彼女の島 / 那一年的夏日午后 …
音乐大学学生，同时兼职原稿运送员的桥本巧（竹内力 饰）是个热爱机车的追风青年。偶然机会，他结识了前辈泽田秀政（三浦友和 饰）的妹妹冬美（渡边典子 饰），两人共度了浪漫的夜晚。对桥本来说，这只是机车男子必不可少的露水姻缘；而在纯洁的冬美看来，这便是一段美好爱情的开始。
在秀政的责问下，烦恼的桥本独自驾车前往信州旅行，打算好好思考和冬美的关系。但是他在这里却邂逅了开朗外向且喜爱机车的女孩白石美代子（原田貴和子 饰）。回到东京后，桥本结束了与冬美的恋情，与此同时，他与美代子的联系逐渐多了起来。似乎，这预示着另一段恋情的开始……
本片改编自片冈义男的同名小说。
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Emotion (1966) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
EMOTION 伝説の午後＝いつか見たドラキュラ
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Emi Tabata / Sari Akasaka …
other title: Émotion / EMOTION 伝説の午後＝いつか見たドラキュラ …
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 her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with…a vampire?
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The Rocking Horsemen (1992) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB
青春デンデケデケデケ
director: 大林宣彦 actor: 浅野忠信 / 石田百合子 …
other title: 青春摇滚 / 青春デンデケデケデケ …
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.
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Shimaizaka (1985) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
姉妹坂
director: 大林宣彦 actor: 绀野美沙子 / 浅野温子 …
other title: 姊妹坡 / 姉妹坂 …
居住在京都的喜多泽家四姐妹美丽动人，除大姐彩（紺野美沙子 饰）外，其余三个妹妹茜（浅野温子 饰）、杏（沢口靖子 饰）、蓝（富田靖子 饰）都来自孤儿院。在父母过世后，彩断掉了和恋人岩城（竹脇無我 饰）结婚的念头，全力担负起照顾妹妹们的责任。
大学生杏青春逼人，她成为年轻小伙追求的对象。花剑部的柚木冬悟（宮川一朗太 饰）和樱庭谅（尾美としのり 饰）同时向杏展开爱情攻势，冬悟虽然得到美人的芳心，但他的母亲却因为杏的出身而横加干涉。杏和蓝从此得知自己的身世，她们为此苦恼不已。不久，杏的生身母亲绫小路良江（入江若葉 饰）来到京都，希望女儿能与她一同生活，喜多泽四姐妹面临分离的命运。另一方面，一向乐观的二姐茜被诊断患有绝症，她和对自己颇有好感的谅走到一起，携手度过生命中最后的时光……