Direction: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Kiwako Harada · Riki Takeuchi · Noriko Watanabe · Tomokazu Miura

Plot After being threatened by his girlfriend’s brother, Ko (Riki Takeuchi) goes on a trip on his Kawasaki to contemplate his options. He meets Miiyo (Kiwako Harada) by chance, and the...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Takuro Atsuki · Takako Tokiwa · Yoshihiko Hosoda · Rei Yoshida

Plot A group of young people 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...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Tomoyo Harada · Ryôichi Takayanagi · Toshinori Omi · Ittoku Kishibe

Plot A high school girl discovers that she suddenly has the ability to travel in time.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

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

Plot 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...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Kimiko Ikegami · Kumiko Ohba · Yôko Minamida · Mitsutoshi Ishigami

Plot When Oshare finds out that her Father's girlfriend is joining them on their summer trip, she and her friends decide to go to her aunt's farmhouse instead. From the moment...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Ryôichi Takayanagi · Miyoko Akaza · Fumi Dan

Plot Mitamura Yuka 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 government...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Tôru Shinagawa · Takehiro Murata · Yutaka Matsushige · Shunsuke Kubozuka

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Miyoko Akaza · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Toru Minegishi · Hiroyuki Watanabe

Plot When Ryoko was in Europa to study music, her lover died in traffic accident. Ryoko believed that she had psychic power that killed her boyfriend. Ryoko returned to Japan, and...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Hitomi Kuroki · Tsurutaro Kataoka · Norihei Miki · Kippei Shiina

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

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Misako Konno · Atsuko Asano · Yasuko Sawaguchi · Yasuko Tomita

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Hiroshi Katsuno · Hikari Ishida · Yôji Matsuda · Toshinori Omi

Plot 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...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

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

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Toshio Kakei · Misa Shimizu · Seina Suzuki · Mirei Nakamura

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Ryo Amamiya · Aiko Asano · Tadanobu Asano · Toshiki Ayata

Plot 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 "The...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Masahiko Tsugawa · Morio Kazama · Miki Fujitani

Plot A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "Women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Miki Fujitani · Tomorô Taguchi · Miyoko Akaza · Hitoshi Ômae

Plot 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...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Saburô Bôya · Akira Emoto · Jun Fubuki · Akihiko Hirata

Plot A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which leads the two to live under...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura

Plot Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in Tokyo...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Morio Kazama · Tsurutaro Kataoka · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Yûko Natori

Plot 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...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Jun Fubuki · Tomoyo Harada · Ishirô Honda · Ayumi Ito