Kyōko Ōbayashi Trailers
Seijo Story: 60 Years of Making Films TrailerFilm Director Nobuhiko Obayashi: His Promise TrailerHouse Trailer
Seijo Story: 60 Years of Making Films TrailerFilm Director Nobuhiko Obayashi: His Promise TrailerHouse Trailer
Total trailers found: 37
01 November 2019
After meeting as college students in the cinema town of Seijo, husband and wife Nobuhiko and Kyoko Obayashi have gone on to direct and produce acclaimed films together for 60 years.
29 March 2019
Director Nobuhiko Obayashi is often dubbed "the cinematic magician." 2 and a half years ago, he was diagnosed with cancer with 3 months to live.
23 September 1996
A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.
07 November 1999
Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.
18 August 2007
It is the second work of the Oita trilogy of Obayashi . Following " Nigori Snow ", Ise Masazo draws a song written by composers and songwriter "Farewell of 22 years old " as a motif and draws a story of love that spans two generations of mother and daughter.
12 April 1985
Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life.
23 June 2007
After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind.
11 July 1987
An entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a foreboding desert wasteland.
04 October 1986
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town.
26 August 1977
Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside.
16 July 1983
Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third-year junior-high-school student. One day, while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints.
26 April 1986
Ko, a motorbike enthusiast from the city wandering the Japanese countryside, falls for the carefree local Miyo and teaches her how to ride.
20 February 1993
Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the author's real name.
17 April 1982
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.
31 October 1992
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound.
18 July 1998
A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in the Triathlon.
18 December 2004
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.
12 May 2012
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.
11 April 1998
On 17 May 1936–during a period of war, economic depression, public unease and growing militarism, a time of unrest and confusion when public opinion was, at best, unpredictable–Sada Abe killed and emasculated her lover.
18 November 1989
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.
10 May 1991
The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior.
03 July 1999
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.
16 December 2017
Spring, 1941: 16-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin.
17 May 2014
Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up.
02 January 1984
After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a decade ago as a university student.
22 July 1978
Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind.
31 May 1986
A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the South Seas.
23 September 1995
People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck.
27 April 2002
After his wife leaves him, middle-aged Yusaku contemplates suicide, but receives a call from old friend Kenichiro, whose wife is in a coma.
02 November 1990
This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, features behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew.
29 March 1988
An unreliable narrator recounts the love story of a loan shark, his wife, and their recently released from jail childhood friend.
14 July 2001
Travelling to his hometown, a stressed, middle-aged businessman dials an old classmate from a public phone, and reconnects with lost fragments of his youth.
01 January 1966
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?
24 June 1961
A young couple go on a picnic in the forest, where the woman reveals that she is pregnant.
31 July 2020
When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.
01 January 1968
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.
01 November 2008
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.