Nobuhiko Obayashi — Playwright (14)
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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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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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Seven Weeks (2014)
野のなななのか IMDb TMDB
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)
この空の花 長岡花火物語 WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Yasuko Matsuyuki / Masahiro Takashima …
other title: この空の花 長岡花火物語 / 空中之花 长冈花火物语 …
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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Hanagatami (2017)
花筐 WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
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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Labyrinth of Cinema (2020)
海辺の映画館－キネマの玉手箱
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.