Nobuhiko Obayashi — Director (54)
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Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
この空の花～長岡花火物語
director: 大林宣彦 actor: 松雪泰子 / 高岛政宏 …
other title: 空中之花 长冈花火物语 / この空の花～長岡花火物語 …
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.
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Emotion (1966)
EMOTION 伝説の午後 いつか見たドラキュラ
★ 7.6 (10 ratings) director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Sari Akasaka / Kyoko Hanyu
other title: 传说在下午,有时会遇到吸血鬼. / EMOTION 伝説の午後 いつか見たドラキュラ …
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?
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Lonely heart (1985) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
さびしんぼう
★ 7.6 (20 ratings) director: 大林宣彦 actor: 富田靖子 / 尾美利德 …
other title: 寂寞的人 / さびしんぼう …
Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche, or is she real?
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Seven Weeks (2014) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
野のなななのか
★ 6.7 (15 ratings) director: 大林宣彦 actor: 品川彻 / 常盘贵子 …
other title: 原野四十九日 / 세븐 윅스 …
Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her appearance gradually exposes wartime secrets and Mitsuo's unknown past.
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I Are You, You Am Me (1982) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
転校生
★ 8.4 (31 ratings) director: 大林宣彦 actor: 尾美利德 / 小林聪美 …
other title: 转校生 / 転校生 …
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.
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House (1977)
HOUSE ハウス
★ 7.8 (135 ratings) director: 大林宣彦 actor: 池上季实子 / 大场久美子 …
other title: 鬼怪屋 / HOUSE ハウス …
Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.
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The Girl Who Cut Time (1983) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
時をかける少女
★ 7.2 (25 ratings) director: 大林宣彦 actor: 原田知世 / 尾美利德 …
other title: 穿越时空的少女 / 時をかける少女 …
Yoshiyama Kazuko is a third-year junior high school student. One day while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has the power to travel through time.
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His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
彼のオートバイ、彼女の島
★ 7.1 (11 ratings) director: 大林宣彦 actor: 原田贵和子 / 渡边典子 …
other title: 他的摩托，她的岛 / 彼のオートバイ、彼女の島 …
After a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a carefree girl Miyo, after teaching her to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy Ko begins to fear that she is destined to crash. Shéa Le Poidevin and Rafi James star in Obayashi's magnum opus.
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The Discarnates (1988)
異人たちとの夏
★ 7.7 (20 ratings) director: 大林宣彦 actor: 风间杜夫 / 秋吉久美子 …
other title: 幽异仲夏 / 異人たちとの夏 …
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' 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.
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Labyrinth of Cinema (2019) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
海辺の映画館 キネマの玉手箱
★ 7.8 (78 ratings) director: 大林宣彦 actor: 厚木拓郎 / 细山田隆人 …
other title: 해변의 영화관 - 키네마 보물상자 / 海辺の映画館－キネマの玉手箱 …
The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of Japanese war films. When lightning strikes the theater, three young men in the audience find themselves thrown back in time into the world inside the screen.