Labyrinth of Cinema
The story centers on a group of young people who travel back in time when they are in a movie theater just before closing time. They witness deaths during the closing days of Japan’s feudal times and on the battlefront in China before they are sent to Hiroshima just before the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of the city.
Nobuhiko Ōbayashi
Casts & Crew
Takuro Atsuki
Yoshihiko Hosoda
Takahito Hosoyamada
Rei Yoshida
Takako Tokiwa
Hirona Yamazaki
Riko Narumi
Tetsuya Takeda
Nenji Kobayashi
Yukihiro Takahashi
Kayoko Shiraishi
Toshinori Omi
Kiyotaka Nanbara
Tsurutaro Kataoka
Tokio Emoto
Takehiro Murata
Gorô Inagaki
Yoshikazu Ebisu
Tadanobu Asano
Ayumi Ito
Tôru Shinagawa
Wakaba Irie
Hiroyuki Watanabe
Makoto Tezuka
Isshin Inudô
Toshie Negishi
Yuri Nakae
Takashi Sasano
Soujiro Hongo
Maiko Kawakami
Shinnosuke Mitsushima
Yoshiyuki Omori
Eri Watanabe
Shunsuke Kubozuka
Keishi Nagatsuka
Saki Terashima
Hiroshi Inuzuka
Nobuhiko Ōbayashi
Also Directed by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi
Chizuko and Mika are sisters who get along very well, and have a good relationship, but one day Chizuko dies unexpectedly in an accident. Mika always feels undermined for not living up to her sisters achievements until one day the ghost of her sister appears again. And by the encouragement of Chizuko, she overcomes various difficulties in her life.
A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.
Ayase Shinsuke (Hiroshi Katsuno), 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.
Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.
Nobuhiko Obayashi, director of the cult horror/comedy "House," gives his unique spin on the true story of Sada Abe, who strangled her lover and cut off his genitals as a keepsake.
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.
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.
Film director Nobuhiko Obayashi went to Russia in 1992 and visited, with his crew, five families from five different cities and asked one member of each family to record their daily life in their homes on video. Using old lullabies as background, the documentary reveals the intimacy, joys, fears and expectations of these families.
Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to a 'Rakugo' (sit-down comedy) show, where a friendly man in the audience invites him home. Harada is puzzled at the strong resemblance of this man and his wife to his own parents, who were killed nearly 30 years ago when he was twelve.