Nobuhiko Obayashi — Director (47)
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Kenya Boy (1984)
少年ケニヤ WikiData IMDb TMDB
Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Tomoyo Harada / Eiko Masuyama …
other title: Jungle Boy, Kenia / Shounen Keniya …
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 beautiful native girl, and the adventure begins.
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Shinobugawa (2000)
忍ぶ川 TMDB
Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Tomokazu Miura / Kaori Takahashi
other title: 忍ぶ川
It is the 1950’s, and the protagonist, identified only as ‘I,’ has come from Tokyo to study, burdened by the high expectations of his poor family in northeastern Japan. He meets a young woman named Shino who works in a small restaurant in the Komagome area of Tokyo. They fall in love, and he takes her to his family home through the heavy snow for their wedding. He introduces Shino to his elderly parents and his sister; they spend their wedding night together listening to bells ringing on sleighs gliding past across the moonlit snow. The next morning, wrapped in their small world of happiness, they go to a hot spring in the mountains to begin their honeymoon.
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The Strange Pair (1988)
日本殉情伝 おかしなふたり ものくるほしきひとびとの群 IMDb TMDB
Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Riki Takeuchi / Tomokazu Miura …
other title: 日本殉情伝 おかしなふたり ものくるほしきひとびとの群
An unreliable narrator recounts the love story of a loan shark, his wife, and their recently released from jail childhood friend.
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Scenery to Remember (2008)
その日のまえに IMDb TMDB
Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Kiyotaka Nanbara / Hiromi Nagasaku …
other title: その日のまえに
Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and takes a sojourn to where her true hometown for which she has so much nostalgia and admiration. With her husband on her side she remains can-do and keeps her chin up, but can only lament the passing of time and what will happen next to everyone and everything she loves.
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One Summer's Day (1999)
あの、夏の日 とんでろ じいちゃん IMDb TMDB
Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Takuro Atsuki / Keiju Kobayashi …
other title: あの、夏の日 とんでろ じいちゃん
Absent-minded fifth-grader Yuta is sent to spend the summer with his grandfather, whom Yuta's parents think is becoming senile and could benefit from Yuta's companionship. At first, Yuta thinks Gramps is a bit addled, too, but as he gets to know the old man better, he finds that his grandfather sees things quite differently from others.
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Take Me Away! (1978)
ふりむけば愛 IMDb TMDB
Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Momoe Yamaguchi / Tomokazu Miura …
other title: ふりむけば愛
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 Tokyo but Tetsu didn't turn up. She went to look for him in San Francisco but all she found was him with his new girlfriend. Kyoko went back to Tokyo and eventually married a big corporate CEO.
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Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye (1977)
ブラックジャック　瞳の中の訪問者 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Nagisa Katahira / Joe Shishido …
other title: The Visitor in the Eye / ブラックジャック　瞳の中の訪問者
Komori Chiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day while training, her coach hits a ball into her eye on accident. At the hospital, the news that she will never regain the sight in her eye leaves her heartbroken. As a last resort, she undergoes a costly surgery from the mysterious doctor known as Black Jack, where after a successful operation, a mysterious figure starts to emerge in her vision, and only she can see it.
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Cute Devil (1982)
可愛い悪魔 IMDb TMDB NeoDB
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.