Nobuhiko Obayashi — Director (28)
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Cute Devil (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
可愛い悪魔
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Kumiko Akiyoshi / Hiroyuki Watanabe …
other title: Lovely Devils / 可愛い悪魔
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 when she returns to Japan she is sent to a mental hospital. While recovering, her brother-in-law, Kouji, decides to look after her, and she goes to his house to act as a governess for Kouji's sister Keiko's daughter, Alice – who Ryoko becomes increasingly sure had something to do with her sister Fuyuko’s death.
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Confession (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
遙かなる憧れギロチン恋の旅
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Sosuke Yamazaki / Kenichi Hagiwara …
other title: 遙かなる憧れギロチン恋の旅
A filmmaker recalls his youth in the town of Onomichi. In the present, he shoots a film in Onomichi alongside his cast, crew and family.
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Sada (1998) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
SADA 戯作・阿部定の生涯
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Hitomi Kuroki / Tsurutaro Kataoka …
other title: Sada: Gesaku · Abe Sada no shôgai / SADA 戯作・阿部定の生涯
The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.
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The Drifting Classroom (1987) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
漂流教室
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Yasufumi Hayashi / Kiwako Harada …
other title: L'École emportée / 漂流教室
An entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a foreboding desert wasteland. As the story unfolds, the diminishing student body weathers this apocalyptic crisis while searching for clues about their surroundings, and dealing with psychological breakdown and dangerous exterior forces.
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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……
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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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Emotion (1966) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB NeoDB
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.