A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Nobuhiko Obayashi
Nobuhiko Ohbayashi
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
大林宣彦
오바야시 노부히코
Birthplace:
Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Born:
January 9, 1938
Died:
April 10, 2020
Nobuhiko Obayashi (January 9, 1938 – April 10, 2020) was a Japanese director, screenwriter and editor of films and television advertisements who is well known for his surreal visual style. He began his career as a pioneering figure in Japanese experimental film during the 1960s before transitioning to directing more mainstream works such as television and feature films. Though he remains mostly unknown outside of Japan, he has made a prolific number of films in his 50 years of working with the medium.
Adaptation:
1987 The Drifting Classroom
Camera Operator:
1966 Emotion
1987 The Drifting Classroom
Dialogue:
1966 Emotion
1983 The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
1987 The Drifting Classroom
Director:
1944 Popeye's Treasure Island
1945 The Stupid Teacher
1952 King Kong
1957 Dandanko
1957 Youth・Cloud
1958 The Girl in the Picture
1961 Thursday
1962 T-shi no gogo
1963 An Eater
1963 Nakasendo
1963 Onomichi
1963 Remembrance
1964 Complexe
1966 Emotion
1967 Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
1968 Confession
1968 Foreign Correspondent - The Case of a Filmmaker
1969 Cheers in the Palm!
1970 Memories of the Sea = Sabishinbo, Introduction
1971 Orere orara
1972 Happy Dinosaur's Album
1972 Stampede Country
1977 House
1977 The Visitor in the Eye
1978 Take Me Away!
1979 The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1981 School in the Crosshairs
1982 Cute Devil
1982 I Are You, You Am Me
1983 Lover, Come Back to Me
1983 The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
1984 Kenya Boy
1984 The Deserted City
1984 The Island Closest to Heaven
1985 Four Sisters
1985 Miss Lonely
1986 April Fish
1986 Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986 His Motorbike, Her Island
1987 The Drifting Classroom
1988 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1988 The Discarnates
1988 The Strange Pair
1989 Beijing Watermelon
1990 Making of 'Dreams'
1990 Why She Won't Marry
1991 Chizuko's Younger Sister
1992 The Rocking Horsemen
1993 Haruka, Nostalgia
1993 Russian Lullabies
1993 Samurai Kids
1994 Turning Point
1995 Goodbye for Tomorrow
1996 Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
1998 I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
1998 Legend of the Cat Monster
1998 Sada
1998 Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1999 One Summer's Day
1999 The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
2000 Shinobugawa
2000 The Stupid Teacher
2001 Farewell
2001 From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
2001 Obayashi Nobuhiko's Special Message
2002 The Last Snow
2004 The Motive
2007 Song of Goodbye
2007 Switching – Goodbye Me
2008 Scenery to Remember
2012 Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2014 Casting Blossoms to the Sky: A Movie Document
2014 Seven Weeks
2017 Hanagatami
2020 Labyrinth of Cinema
Director of Communications:
1944 Popeye's Treasure Island
1945 The Stupid Teacher
1952 King Kong
1957 Dandanko
1957 Youth・Cloud
1958 The Girl in the Picture
1961 Thursday
1962 T-shi no gogo
1963 An Eater
1963 Nakasendo
1963 Onomichi
1963 Remembrance
1964 Complexe
1966 Emotion
1967 Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
1968 Confession
1968 Foreign Correspondent - The Case of a Filmmaker
1969 Cheers in the Palm!
1970 Memories of the Sea = Sabishinbo, Introduction
1971 Orere orara
1972 Happy Dinosaur's Album
1972 Stampede Country
1977 House
1977 The Visitor in the Eye
1978 Take Me Away!
1979 The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1981 School in the Crosshairs
1982 Cute Devil
1982 I Are You, You Am Me
1983 Lover, Come Back to Me
1983 The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
1984 Kenya Boy
1984 The Deserted City
1984 The Island Closest to Heaven
1985 Four Sisters
1985 Miss Lonely
1986 April Fish
1986 Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986 His Motorbike, Her Island
1987 The Drifting Classroom
1988 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1988 The Discarnates
1988 The Strange Pair
1989 Beijing Watermelon
1990 Making of 'Dreams'
1990 Why She Won't Marry
1991 Chizuko's Younger Sister
1992 The Rocking Horsemen
1993 Haruka, Nostalgia
1993 Russian Lullabies
1993 Samurai Kids
1994 Turning Point
1995 Goodbye for Tomorrow
1996 Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
1998 I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
1998 Legend of the Cat Monster
1998 Sada
1998 Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1999 One Summer's Day
1999 The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
2000 Shinobugawa
2000 The Stupid Teacher
2001 Farewell
2001 From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
2001 Obayashi Nobuhiko's Special Message
2002 The Last Snow
2004 The Motive
2007 Song of Goodbye
2007 Switching – Goodbye Me
2008 Scenery to Remember
2012 Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2014 Casting Blossoms to the Sky: A Movie Document
2014 Seven Weeks
2017 Hanagatami
2020 Labyrinth of Cinema
???? HOUSE
Director of Photography:
1944 Popeye's Treasure Island
1945 The Stupid Teacher
1952 King Kong
1957 Dandanko
1957 Youth・Cloud
1958 The Girl in the Picture
1961 Thursday
1962 T-shi no gogo
1963 An Eater
1963 Nakasendo
1963 Onomichi
1963 Remembrance
1964 Complexe
1966 Emotion
1967 Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
1968 Confession
1968 Foreign Correspondent - The Case of a Filmmaker
1969 Cheers in the Palm!
1970 Memories of the Sea = Sabishinbo, Introduction
1971 Orere orara
1972 Happy Dinosaur's Album
1972 Stampede Country
1977 House
1977 The Visitor in the Eye
1978 Take Me Away!
1979 The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1981 School in the Crosshairs
1982 Cute Devil
1982 I Are You, You Am Me
1983 Lover, Come Back to Me
1983 The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
1984 Kenya Boy
1984 The Deserted City
1984 The Island Closest to Heaven
1985 Four Sisters
1985 Miss Lonely
1986 April Fish
1986 Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986 His Motorbike, Her Island
1987 The Drifting Classroom
1988 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1988 The Discarnates
1988 The Strange Pair
1989 Beijing Watermelon
1990 Making of 'Dreams'
1990 Why She Won't Marry
1991 Chizuko's Younger Sister
1992 The Rocking Horsemen
1993 Haruka, Nostalgia
1993 Russian Lullabies
1993 Samurai Kids
1994 Turning Point
1995 Goodbye for Tomorrow
1996 Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
1998 I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
1998 Legend of the Cat Monster
1998 Sada
1998 Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1999 One Summer's Day
1999 The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
2000 Shinobugawa
2000 The Stupid Teacher
2001 Farewell
2001 From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
2001 Obayashi Nobuhiko's Special Message
2002 The Last Snow
2004 The Motive
2007 Song of Goodbye
2007 Switching – Goodbye Me
2008 Scenery to Remember
2012 Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2014 Casting Blossoms to the Sky: A Movie Document
2014 Seven Weeks
2017 Hanagatami
2020 Labyrinth of Cinema
???? HOUSE
Editor:
1944 Popeye's Treasure Island
1945 The Stupid Teacher
1952 King Kong
1957 Dandanko
1957 Youth・Cloud
1958 The Girl in the Picture
1961 Thursday
1962 T-shi no gogo
1963 An Eater
1963 Nakasendo
1963 Onomichi
1963 Remembrance
1964 Complexe
1966 Emotion
1967 Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
1968 Confession
1968 Foreign Correspondent - The Case of a Filmmaker
1969 Cheers in the Palm!
1970 Memories of the Sea = Sabishinbo, Introduction
1971 Orere orara
1972 Happy Dinosaur's Album
1972 Stampede Country
1977 House
1977 The Visitor in the Eye
1978 Take Me Away!
1979 The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1981 School in the Crosshairs
1982 Cute Devil
1982 I Are You, You Am Me
1983 Lover, Come Back to Me
1983 The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
1984 Kenya Boy
1984 The Deserted City
1984 The Island Closest to Heaven
1985 Four Sisters
1985 Miss Lonely
1986 April Fish
1986 Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986 His Motorbike, Her Island
1987 The Drifting Classroom
1988 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1988 The Discarnates
1988 The Strange Pair
1989 Beijing Watermelon
1990 Making of 'Dreams'
1990 Why She Won't Marry
1991 Chizuko's Younger Sister
1992 The Rocking Horsemen
1993 Haruka, Nostalgia
1993 Russian Lullabies
1993 Samurai Kids
1994 Turning Point
1995 Goodbye for Tomorrow
1996 Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
1998 I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
1998 Legend of the Cat Monster
1998 Sada
1998 Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1999 One Summer's Day
1999 The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
2000 Shinobugawa
2000 The Stupid Teacher
2001 Farewell
2001 From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
2001 Obayashi Nobuhiko's Special Message
2002 The Last Snow
2004 The Motive
2007 Song of Goodbye
2007 Switching – Goodbye Me
2008 Scenery to Remember
2012 Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2014 Casting Blossoms to the Sky: A Movie Document
2014 Seven Weeks
2017 Hanagatami
2020 Labyrinth of Cinema
???? HOUSE
Executive Producer:
1944 Popeye's Treasure Island
1945 The Stupid Teacher
1952 King Kong
1957 Dandanko
1957 Youth・Cloud
1958 The Girl in the Picture
1961 Thursday
1962 T-shi no gogo
1963 An Eater
1963 Nakasendo
1963 Onomichi
1963 Remembrance
1964 Complexe
1966 Emotion
1967 Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
1968 Confession
1968 Foreign Correspondent - The Case of a Filmmaker
1969 Cheers in the Palm!
1970 Memories of the Sea = Sabishinbo, Introduction
1971 Orere orara
1972 Happy Dinosaur's Album
1972 Stampede Country
1977 House
1977 The Visitor in the Eye
1978 Take Me Away!
1979 The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1981 School in the Crosshairs
1982 Cute Devil
1982 I Are You, You Am Me
1983 Aiko 16-sai
1983 Lover, Come Back to Me
1983 The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
1984 Kenya Boy
1984 The Deserted City
1984 The Island Closest to Heaven
1985 Four Sisters
1985 Miss Lonely
1986 April Fish
1986 Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986 His Motorbike, Her Island
1987 The Drifting Classroom
1988 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1988 The Discarnates
1988 The Strange Pair
1989 Beijing Watermelon
1990 Making of 'Dreams'
1990 Why She Won't Marry
1991 Chizuko's Younger Sister
1992 The Rocking Horsemen
1993 Haruka, Nostalgia
1993 Russian Lullabies
1993 Samurai Kids
1994 Turning Point
1995 Goodbye for Tomorrow
1996 Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
1997 Time Leap
1998 I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
1998 Legend of the Cat Monster
1998 Sada
1998 Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1999 One Summer's Day
1999 The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
2000 Shinobugawa
2000 The Stupid Teacher
2001 Farewell
2001 From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
2001 Obayashi Nobuhiko's Special Message
2002 The Last Snow
2004 The Motive
2007 Song of Goodbye
2007 Switching – Goodbye Me
2008 Scenery to Remember
2012 Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2014 Casting Blossoms to the Sky: A Movie Document
2014 Seven Weeks
2017 Hanagatami
2020 Labyrinth of Cinema
???? HOUSE
Lyricist:
1944 Popeye's Treasure Island
1945 The Stupid Teacher
1952 King Kong
1957 Dandanko
1957 Youth・Cloud
1958 The Girl in the Picture
1961 Thursday
1962 T-shi no gogo
1963 An Eater
1963 Nakasendo
1963 Onomichi
1963 Remembrance
1964 Complexe
1966 Emotion
1967 Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
1968 Confession
1968 Foreign Correspondent - The Case of a Filmmaker
1969 Cheers in the Palm!
1970 Memories of the Sea = Sabishinbo, Introduction
1971 Orere orara
1972 Happy Dinosaur's Album
1972 Stampede Country
1977 House
1977 The Mouse and His Child
1977 The Visitor in the Eye
1978 Take Me Away!
1979 The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1981 School in the Crosshairs
1982 Cute Devil
1982 I Are You, You Am Me
1983 Aiko 16-sai
1983 Lover, Come Back to Me
1983 The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
1984 Kenya Boy
1984 The Deserted City
1984 The Island Closest to Heaven
1985 Four Sisters
1985 Miss Lonely
1986 April Fish
1986 Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986 His Motorbike, Her Island
1987 The Drifting Classroom
1988 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1988 The Discarnates
1988 The Strange Pair
1989 Beijing Watermelon
1990 Making of 'Dreams'
1990 Why She Won't Marry
1991 Chizuko's Younger Sister
1992 The Rocking Horsemen
1993 Haruka, Nostalgia
1993 Russian Lullabies
1993 Samurai Kids
1994 Turning Point
1995 Goodbye for Tomorrow
1996 Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
1997 Time Leap
1998 I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
1998 Legend of the Cat Monster
1998 Sada
1998 Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1999 One Summer's Day
1999 The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
2000 Shinobugawa
2000 The Stupid Teacher
2001 Farewell
2001 From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
2001 Obayashi Nobuhiko's Special Message
2002 The Last Snow
2004 The Motive
2007 Song of Goodbye
2007 Switching – Goodbye Me
2008 Scenery to Remember
2012 Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2014 Casting Blossoms to the Sky: A Movie Document
2014 Seven Weeks
2017 Hanagatami
2020 Labyrinth of Cinema
???? HOUSE
Original Music Composer:
1944 Popeye's Treasure Island
1945 The Stupid Teacher
1952 King Kong
1957 Dandanko
1957 Youth・Cloud
1958 The Girl in the Picture
1961 Thursday
1962 T-shi no gogo
1963 An Eater
1963 Nakasendo
1963 Onomichi
1963 Remembrance
1964 Complexe
1966 Emotion
1967 Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
1968 Confession
1968 Foreign Correspondent - The Case of a Filmmaker
1969 Cheers in the Palm!
1970 Evil Spirits of Japan
1970 Memories of the Sea = Sabishinbo, Introduction
1971 Orere orara
1972 Happy Dinosaur's Album
1972 Stampede Country
1975 Death at an Old Mansion
1977 House
1977 The Mouse and His Child
1977 The Visitor in the Eye
1978 Take Me Away!
1979 The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1981 School in the Crosshairs
1982 Cute Devil
1982 I Are You, You Am Me
1983 Aiko 16-sai
1983 Lover, Come Back to Me
1983 The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
1984 Kenya Boy
1984 The Deserted City
1984 The Island Closest to Heaven
1985 Four Sisters
1985 Miss Lonely
1986 April Fish
1986 Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986 His Motorbike, Her Island
1987 The Drifting Classroom
1988 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1988 The Discarnates
1988 The Strange Pair
1989 Beijing Watermelon
1990 Making of 'Dreams'
1990 Why She Won't Marry
1991 Chizuko's Younger Sister
1992 The Rocking Horsemen
1993 Haruka, Nostalgia
1993 Russian Lullabies
1993 Samurai Kids
1994 Turning Point
1995 Goodbye for Tomorrow
1996 Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
1997 Time Leap
1998 I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
1998 Legend of the Cat Monster
1998 Sada
1998 Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1999 One Summer's Day
1999 The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
2000 Shinobugawa
2000 The Stupid Teacher
2001 Farewell
2001 From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
2001 Obayashi Nobuhiko's Special Message
2002 The Last Snow
2004 The Motive
2007 Song of Goodbye
2007 Switching – Goodbye Me
2008 Scenery to Remember
2012 Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2014 Casting Blossoms to the Sky: A Movie Document
2014 Seven Weeks
2017 Hanagatami
2020 Labyrinth of Cinema
???? HOUSE
Producer:
1944 Popeye's Treasure Island
1945 The Stupid Teacher
1952 King Kong
1957 Dandanko
1957 Youth・Cloud
1958 The Girl in the Picture
1961 Thursday
1962 T-shi no gogo
1963 An Eater
1963 Nakasendo
1963 Onomichi
1963 Remembrance
1964 Complexe
1966 Emotion
1967 Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
1968 Confession
1968 Foreign Correspondent - The Case of a Filmmaker
1969 Cheers in the Palm!
1970 Evil Spirits of Japan
1970 Memories of the Sea = Sabishinbo, Introduction
1971 Orere orara
1972 Happy Dinosaur's Album
1972 Stampede Country
1975 Death at an Old Mansion
1977 House
1977 The Mouse and His Child
1977 The Visitor in the Eye
1978 Take Me Away!
1979 Temptation of Angel
1979 The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1981 School in the Crosshairs
1982 Cute Devil
1982 I Are You, You Am Me
1983 Aiko 16-sai
1983 Lover, Come Back to Me
1983 The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
1984 Kenya Boy
1984 The Deserted City
1984 The Island Closest to Heaven
1985 Four Sisters
1985 Miss Lonely
1986 April Fish
1986 Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986 His Motorbike, Her Island
1987 The Drifting Classroom
1988 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1988 The Discarnates
1988 The Strange Pair
1989 Beijing Watermelon
1990 Making of 'Dreams'
1990 Why She Won't Marry
1991 Chizuko's Younger Sister
1992 The Rocking Horsemen
1993 Haruka, Nostalgia
1993 Russian Lullabies
1993 Samurai Kids
1994 Turning Point
1995 Goodbye for Tomorrow
1996 Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
1997 Time Leap
1998 I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
1998 Legend of the Cat Monster
1998 Sada
1998 Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1999 One Summer's Day
1999 The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
2000 Shinobugawa
2000 The Stupid Teacher
2001 Farewell
2001 From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
2001 Obayashi Nobuhiko's Special Message
2002 The Last Snow
2004 The Motive
2007 Song of Goodbye
2007 Switching – Goodbye Me
2008 Scenery to Remember
2012 Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2014 Casting Blossoms to the Sky: A Movie Document
2014 Seven Weeks
2017 Hanagatami
2020 Labyrinth of Cinema
???? HOUSE
Screenplay:
1944 Popeye's Treasure Island
1945 The Stupid Teacher
1952 King Kong
1957 Dandanko
1957 Youth・Cloud
1958 The Girl in the Picture
1961 Thursday
1962 T-shi no gogo
1963 An Eater
1963 Nakasendo
1963 Onomichi
1963 Remembrance
1964 Complexe
1966 Emotion
1967 Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
1968 Confession
1968 Foreign Correspondent - The Case of a Filmmaker
1969 Cheers in the Palm!
1970 Evil Spirits of Japan
1970 Memories of the Sea = Sabishinbo, Introduction
1971 Orere orara
1972 Happy Dinosaur's Album
1972 Stampede Country
1975 Death at an Old Mansion
1977 House
1977 The Mouse and His Child
1977 The Visitor in the Eye
1978 Take Me Away!
1979 Temptation of Angel
1979 The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1981 School in the Crosshairs
1982 Cute Devil
1982 I Are You, You Am Me
1983 Aiko 16-sai
1983 Lover, Come Back to Me
1983 The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
1984 Kenya Boy
1984 The Deserted City
1984 The Island Closest to Heaven
1985 Four Sisters
1985 Miss Lonely
1986 April Fish
1986 Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986 His Motorbike, Her Island
1987 The Drifting Classroom
1988 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1988 The Discarnates
1988 The Strange Pair
1989 Beijing Watermelon
1990 Making of 'Dreams'
1990 Why She Won't Marry
1991 Chizuko's Younger Sister
1992 The Rocking Horsemen
1993 Haruka, Nostalgia
1993 Russian Lullabies
1993 Samurai Kids
1994 Turning Point
1995 Goodbye for Tomorrow
1996 Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
1997 Time Leap
1998 I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
1998 Legend of the Cat Monster
1998 Sada
1998 Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1999 One Summer's Day
1999 The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
2000 Shinobugawa
2000 The Stupid Teacher
2001 Farewell
2001 From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
2001 Obayashi Nobuhiko's Special Message
2002 The Last Snow
2004 The Motive
2007 Song of Goodbye
2007 Switching – Goodbye Me
2008 Scenery to Remember
2012 Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2014 Casting Blossoms to the Sky: A Movie Document
2014 Seven Weeks
2017 Hanagatami
2020 Labyrinth of Cinema
???? HOUSE
Special Effects:
1944 Popeye's Treasure Island
1945 The Stupid Teacher
1952 King Kong
1957 Dandanko
1957 Youth・Cloud
1958 The Girl in the Picture
1961 Thursday
1962 T-shi no gogo
1963 An Eater
1963 Nakasendo
1963 Onomichi
1963 Remembrance
1964 Complexe
1966 Emotion
1967 Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
1968 Confession
1968 Foreign Correspondent - The Case of a Filmmaker
1969 Cheers in the Palm!
1970 Evil Spirits of Japan
1970 Memories of the Sea = Sabishinbo, Introduction
1971 Orere orara
1972 Happy Dinosaur's Album
1972 Stampede Country
1975 Death at an Old Mansion
1977 House
1977 The Mouse and His Child
1977 The Visitor in the Eye
1978 Take Me Away!
1979 Temptation of Angel
1979 The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1981 School in the Crosshairs
1982 Cute Devil
1982 I Are You, You Am Me
1983 Aiko 16-sai
1983 Lover, Come Back to Me
1983 The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
1984 Kenya Boy
1984 The Deserted City
1984 The Island Closest to Heaven
1985 Four Sisters
1985 Miss Lonely
1986 April Fish
1986 Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986 His Motorbike, Her Island
1987 The Drifting Classroom
1988 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1988 The Discarnates
1988 The Strange Pair
1989 Beijing Watermelon
1990 Making of 'Dreams'
1990 Why She Won't Marry
1991 Chizuko's Younger Sister
1992 The Rocking Horsemen
1993 Haruka, Nostalgia
1993 Russian Lullabies
1993 Samurai Kids
1994 Turning Point
1995 Goodbye for Tomorrow
1996 Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
1997 Time Leap
1998 I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
1998 Legend of the Cat Monster
1998 Sada
1998 Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1999 One Summer's Day
1999 The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
2000 Shinobugawa
2000 The Stupid Teacher
2001 Farewell
2001 From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
2001 Obayashi Nobuhiko's Special Message
2002 The Last Snow
2004 The Motive
2007 Song of Goodbye
2007 Switching – Goodbye Me
2008 Scenery to Remember
2012 Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2014 Casting Blossoms to the Sky: A Movie Document
2014 Seven Weeks
2017 Hanagatami
2020 Labyrinth of Cinema
???? HOUSE
Theme Song Performance:
1944 Popeye's Treasure Island
1945 The Stupid Teacher
1952 King Kong
1957 Dandanko
1957 Youth・Cloud
1958 The Girl in the Picture
1961 Thursday
1962 T-shi no gogo
1963 An Eater
1963 Nakasendo
1963 Onomichi
1963 Remembrance
1964 Complexe
1966 Emotion
1967 Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
1968 Confession
1968 Foreign Correspondent - The Case of a Filmmaker
1969 Cheers in the Palm!
1970 Evil Spirits of Japan
1970 Memories of the Sea = Sabishinbo, Introduction
1971 Orere orara
1972 Happy Dinosaur's Album
1972 Stampede Country
1975 Death at an Old Mansion
1977 House
1977 The Mouse and His Child
1977 The Visitor in the Eye
1978 Take Me Away!
1979 Temptation of Angel
1979 The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1981 School in the Crosshairs
1982 Cute Devil
1982 I Are You, You Am Me
1983 Aiko 16-sai
1983 Lover, Come Back to Me
1983 The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
1984 Kenya Boy
1984 The Deserted City
1984 The Island Closest to Heaven
1985 Four Sisters
1985 Miss Lonely
1986 April Fish
1986 Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986 His Motorbike, Her Island
1987 The Drifting Classroom
1988 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1988 The Discarnates
1988 The Strange Pair
1989 Beijing Watermelon
1990 Making of 'Dreams'
1990 Why She Won't Marry
1991 Chizuko's Younger Sister
1992 The Rocking Horsemen
1993 Haruka, Nostalgia
1993 Russian Lullabies
1993 Samurai Kids
1994 Turning Point
1995 Goodbye for Tomorrow
1996 Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
1997 Time Leap
1998 I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
1998 Legend of the Cat Monster
1998 Sada
1998 Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1999 One Summer's Day
1999 The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
2000 Shinobugawa
2000 The Stupid Teacher
2001 Farewell
2001 From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
2001 Obayashi Nobuhiko's Special Message
2002 The Last Snow
2004 The Motive
2007 Song of Goodbye
2007 Switching – Goodbye Me
2008 Scenery to Remember
2012 Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2014 Casting Blossoms to the Sky: A Movie Document
2014 Seven Weeks
2017 Hanagatami
2020 Labyrinth of Cinema
???? HOUSE
Writer:
1944 Popeye's Treasure Island
1945 The Stupid Teacher
1952 King Kong
1957 Dandanko
1957 Youth・Cloud
1958 The Girl in the Picture
1961 Thursday
1962 T-shi no gogo
1963 An Eater
1963 Nakasendo
1963 Onomichi
1963 Remembrance
1964 Complexe
1966 Emotion
1967 Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
1968 Confession
1968 Foreign Correspondent - The Case of a Filmmaker
1969 Cheers in the Palm!
1970 Evil Spirits of Japan
1970 Memories of the Sea = Sabishinbo, Introduction
1971 Orere orara
1972 Happy Dinosaur's Album
1972 Stampede Country
1975 Death at an Old Mansion
1977 House
1977 The Mouse and His Child
1977 The Visitor in the Eye
1978 Take Me Away!
1979 Temptation of Angel
1979 The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1981 School in the Crosshairs
1982 Cute Devil
1982 I Are You, You Am Me
1983 Aiko 16-sai
1983 Lover, Come Back to Me
1983 The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
1984 Kenya Boy
1984 The Deserted City
1984 The Island Closest to Heaven
1985 Four Sisters
1985 Miss Lonely
1986 April Fish
1986 Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986 His Motorbike, Her Island
1987 The Drifting Classroom
1988 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1988 The Discarnates
1988 The Strange Pair
1989 Beijing Watermelon
1990 Making of 'Dreams'
1990 Why She Won't Marry
1991 Chizuko's Younger Sister
1992 The Rocking Horsemen
1993 Haruka, Nostalgia
1993 Russian Lullabies
1993 Samurai Kids
1994 Turning Point
1995 Goodbye for Tomorrow
1996 Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
1997 Time Leap
1998 I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
1998 Legend of the Cat Monster
1998 Sada
1998 Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
1999 One Summer's Day
1999 The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
2000 Shinobugawa
2000 The Stupid Teacher
2001 Farewell
2001 From the theme of Mahoroba "Doi Koinouta"
2001 Obayashi Nobuhiko's Special Message
2002 The Last Snow
2004 The Motive
2007 Song of Goodbye
2007 Switching – Goodbye Me
2008 Scenery to Remember
2012 Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2014 Casting Blossoms to the Sky: A Movie Document
2014 Seven Weeks
2017 Hanagatami
2020 Labyrinth of Cinema
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Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.