Kyôko Ôbayashi Movies
- 1977
House
House7.31977HD
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...
- 1983
The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
The Little Girl Who Conquered Time6.41983HD
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...
- 1986
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast6.41986HD
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland...
- 2017
Hanagatami
Hanagatami7.22017HD
Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the...
- 1985
Miss Lonely
Miss Lonely6.91985HD
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,...
- 2012
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
Casting Blossoms to the Sky6.62012HD
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...
- 1992
The Rocking Horsemen
The Rocking Horsemen6.81992HD
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he...
- 2020
Labyrinth of Cinema
Labyrinth of Cinema6.52020HD
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...
- 2007
Switching – Goodbye Me
Switching – Goodbye Me6.52007HD
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...
- 1998
Sada
Sada6.81998HD
The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.
- 1982
I Are You, You Am Me
I Are You, You Am Me6.51982HD
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...
- 1999
One Summer's Day
One Summer's Day01999HD
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding...
- 1989
Beijing Watermelon
Beijing Watermelon6.31989HD
Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change...
- 1986
His Motorbike, Her Island
His Motorbike, Her Island7.61986HD
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...
- 1984
The Deserted City
The Deserted City6.81984HD
After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a decade ago as a university student.
- 1991
Chizuko's Younger Sister
Chizuko's Younger Sister7.31991HD
The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter...
- 1993
Haruka, Nostalgia
Haruka, Nostalgia61993HD
Ayase Shinsuke, 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 the...
- 1966
Emotion
Emotion6.71966HD
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...
- 2002
The Last Snow
The Last Snow02002HD
A story of two men, one recently bereaved, the other with a wife in a coma. From the popular song.
- 2014
Seven Weeks
Seven Weeks8.62014HD
Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her appearance...