
Nobuhiko Obayashi
Director
Born: January 9, 1938 (82 years old)
Died: April 10, 2020
Place of birth: Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Biography
Nobuhiko Obayashi (January 9, 1938 – April 10, 2020) was a Japanese director, screenwriter and editor of films and television advertisements who is well known for his surreal visual style. He began his career as a pioneering figure in Japanese experimental film during the 1960s before transitioning to directing more mainstream works such as television and feature films. Though he remains mostly unknown outside of Japan, he has made a prolific number of films in his 50 years of working with the medium.
Filmography (36)
- House (1977, ★ 7.3)
- His Motorbike, Her Island (1986, ★ 7.8)
- Seven Weeks (2014, ★ 8.1)
- Confession (1968, ★ 6.4)
- The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979, ★ 6.2)
- Labyrinth of Cinema (2020, ★ 6.7)
- Switching – Goodbye Me (2007, ★ 6.5)
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983, ★ 6.7)
- Sada (1998, ★ 7)
- Emotion (1966, ★ 6.8)
- Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012, ★ 6.9)
- I Are You, You Am Me (1982, ★ 6.6)
- The Girl in the Picture (1958, ★ 5.6)
- School in the Crosshairs (1981, ★ 6.2)
- The Discarnates (1988, ★ 6.4)
- The Rocking Horsemen (1992, ★ 6.8)
- The Motive (2004, ★ 6.4)
- The Deserted City (1984, ★ 6.8)
- Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (1986, ★ 6.7)
- Chizuko's Younger Sister (1991, ★ 7.3)
- Dandanko (1960, ★ 6.6)
- Lonely Heart (1985, ★ 7)
- Complexe (1964, ★ 6.6)
- Remembrance (1963, ★ 6.7)
- Cute Devil (1982, ★ 7)
- An Eater (1963, ★ 5.4)
- The Island Closest to Heaven (1984, ★ 6.2)
- Hanagatami (2017, ★ 7)
- The Mouse and His Child (1977, ★ 6.2)
- The Drifting Classroom (1987, ★ 4.7)