Best movies of Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Actors : Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ohba, Kimiko Ikegami, Ai Matsubara,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which tries to devour the girls in bizarre ways.

Actors : Ryôichi Takayanagi, Toshinori Omi, Toshie Negishi, Tomoyo Harada,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.

Actors : Misako Renbutsu, Naoyuki Morita, Hiroshi, Takuro Atsuki,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is surprised to reunite with his childhood friend ...

Actors : Ryôichi Takayanagi, Fumi Dan, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Miyoko Akaza,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

Mitamura Yuka (Hiroko Yakushimaru) is a normal shy middle school student that has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show his skills, by stealing the student ...

Actors : Satomi Kobayashi, Sayuri Ishibashi, Makoto Satô, Toshinori Omi,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) 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...

Actors : Morio Kazama, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Tsurutarô Kataoka, Atsuko Kawata,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

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 ...

Actors : Kippei Shîna, Tsurutarô Kataoka, Hitomi Kuroki, Norihei Miki,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.

Actors : Takehiro Murata, Saki Terashima, Miyoko Akaza, Takuro Atsuki,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

Four people are murdered in an apartment block, but none of them seem connected.

Actors : Satomi Kobayashi, Tôru Minegishi, Toshie Negishi, Kisuke Yamashita,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

After reading a newspaper article about a town being destroyed in a fire, Eguchi begins to recall the summer he spent there writing his thesis. It's a beautiful canal town, the "Venice of ...

Actors : Yasuko Tomita, Yumiko Fujita, Toshinori Omi, Nenji Kobayashi,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

Lonely and love-struck, high-school student Hiroki pursues one girl but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his lonely psyche, or real? An intricate triangle ...

Actors : Leana D'Aloisio, Yasufumi Hayashi, Aiko Asano, Vajra Barzaghi,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

An international school in Kobe, Japan is catapulted into the future after a time-slip occurs.

Actors : Tomoko Nakajima, Toshinori Omi, Hikari Ishida, Tomoka Shibayama,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

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.

Actors : Toshiki Ayata, Tadanobu Asano, Ryo Amamiya, Aiko Asano,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara Yasufumi Hayashi) hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "...

Actors : Bengaru, Nao Asuka, Yûko Arao, Miyoko Akaza,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

People from all walks of life (a high-school student, a middle-aged businessman, a yakuza chief, etc.) all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a ...

Actors : Bengaru, Ryo Amamiya, Narimi Arimori, Yasufumi Hayashi,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

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. The story is told in flashbacks as Namiko awaits childbirth.

Actors : Kin Sugai, Kyûsaku Shimada, Takuro Atsuki, Keiju Kobayashi,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

Yuta, an absent-minded 5th-grader, 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...