Cinematography: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Sari Akasaka · Kyoko Hanyu · Sakio Hirata · Jinichi Isizaki

Synopsis 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?

Synopsis A waitress at a busy restauraunt dreams that she is trapped on an operating table, and the food inside her body is being served to the guests.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Synopsis 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...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Synopsis An experimental film edited from footage of the Japanese countryside.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Masahiro Sumiyoshi · Noriko Takemura

Synopsis A young couple go on a picnic in the forest, where the woman reveals that she is pregnant.

Direction Akira Hirata · Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Seiji Dai · Akira Hirata · Inami Hirata · Reiko Nishi

Synopsis A short scene of a mother and her little son playing ball games on a set of steps together.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Misako Renbutsu · Naoyuki Morita · Takuro Atsuki · Wakaba Irie

Synopsis 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 Kazumi. "Remember I kissed you, saying I'll marry you...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Kyoko Obayashi

Synopsis This is probably a forgotten masterpiece of Japanese underground cinema. A very personal and autobiographical film for Obayashi. Much of the film's running time consists of creatively edited montages of the young main characters having fun, high on life, wreaking...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Kyoko Obayashi

Synopsis A non-narrative tribute to the seaside town of Onomichi, where Obayashi grew up and where most of these films were made.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Eiko Asano · Hitokazu Ishizaki · Makoto Noro · Akihiko Oikawa

Synopsis A woman and boy visit an ominous graveyard.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Kyoko Obayashi

Synopsis Perhaps the most conventional narrative on Obayashi's experimental works, about a man who reminisces about a girl in his past (played by Obayashi's soon-to-be wife Kyoko). Although it's a silent film, it relies a bit too much on title cards...