Nobuhiko Ôbayashi Movies

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?

Hausu is a movie starring Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, and Kumiko Ohba. A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.

Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.

Four half-sisters share an unusually close bond during tumultuous times of post-war Japan.

Ijin-tachi to no natsu is a movie starring Morio Kazama, Kumiko Akiyoshi, and Tsurutarô Kataoka. Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering...

Follows two sisters, one clumsy and ignored, the other a perfect child. After the latter dies in an accident, she returns as a ghost to guide her little sister.

Hanagatami is a movie starring Shunsuke Kubozuka, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, and Keishi Nagatsuka. Fulfilling his filmmaking dream of 40 years, Nobuhiko Obayashi's luminous new feature "Hanagatami" delivers a timeless story of the...