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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 but Tetsu didn’t turn up.Read More »
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Furimukeba ai AKA Take Me Away! (1978)
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Ijin-tachi to no natsu AKA The Discarnates AKA Summer Among the Zombies (1988)
1981-1990DramaFantasyJapanNobuhiko ObayashiHarada 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’ (sit-down comedy) 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. He visits the couple repeatedly, and greatly enjoys the happy atmosphere there, which was much like his childhood, and such a contrast to his current existence, which is lonely and tortured. But he is no longer alone.Read More »
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Haruka, nosutarujii AKA Haruka, Nostalgia (1993)
1991-2000AsianDramaJapanNobuhiko ObayashiA fantasy drama about a popular writer who returns to Otaru, his hometown and finds a girl who looks a lot like the woman he once loved.Read More »
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Nobuhiko Obayashi – Sabishinbô aka Lonely Heart (1985)
1981-1990AsianComedyJapanNobuhiko ObayashiLonely and love-struck, high-school student Hiroki pursues one girl but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his lonely psyche, or real? An intricate triangle develops, and the viewer can’t quite be sure what is happening until the whole story is neatly resolved at the end.Read More »
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – MAKING OF DREAMS: Kurosawa Akira and Ôbayashi Nobuhiko- Eiga no Taiwa (1990)
1981-1990DocumentaryJapanNobuhiko ObayashiOn set making-of documentary about Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams.Read More »
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Nobuhiko Obayashi – Tenkosei: Sayonara anata AKA Switching – Goodbye Me (2007)
2001-2010AsianDramaJapanNobuhiko ObayashiA self-remake of multi-award winning 1982 film by director Obayashi Nobuhiko, “Tenkousei” is about two junior high student switching body. A very unique, experimental film.Read More »
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Haishi AKA The Deserted City (1984)
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After reading a newspaper article about a town being destroyed in a fire, Eguchi begins to recall the summer he spent there writing his thesis. It’s a beautiful canal town, the “Venice of Japan.” As he arrives, he is greeted by the daughter of the Kaibara household, Yasuko. The rest of her family seems mysteriously absent. On his first night, Eguchi hears the stifled sound of crying. He attempts to find the source, and is soon drawn into the conflict that is tearing the family apart. While he likens the town to a dream, some of the inhabitants do not share his feelings. There is a sense of being stuck in time, with ruin and death the only future.Read More » -
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Tenkôsei AKA Exchange Students (1982)
1981-1990ComedyFantasyJapanNobuhiko ObayashiThis hilarious movie catapults two youngsters hitting puberty into the opposite sex after a fall from which they recover in each other’s bodies. The timid sensitive girl becomes the effeminate insecure boy, and the unredeeming prankster becomes the loud clumsy girl with a chip on her shoulder. Both lead actors do tremendous jobs portraying the opposite sex, and often do so delivering more than a laugh. It ends in a bittersweet tone, but it is a really cute movie with hilarious moments.Read More »
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Nobuhiko Obayashi – Cute Devil AKA Kawaii Akuma (1982)
1981-1990HorrorJapanNobuhiko ObayashiThrillerCute Devil (Kawaii Akuma) is a two-hour TV movie directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi that aired on Nippon TV on 10 August 1982.
It was based on The Bad Seed and starts with a brutal murder that was fairly shocking for network TV at the time and could be easily compared with the first murder in Suspiria. The movie moves on to be the story of a woman who has been released from a mental institution and is to reside with the murderous little girl and her mother in a secluded house. More cruel deaths occur and the mentally ill woman must convince those around her that the child is a psychopath. A pedophile also turns up to keep the proceedings lively.Read More »