Nobuhiko Obayashi

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OBAYASHI ’80s: THE ONOMICHI TRILOGY AND KADOKAWA YEARS Launches At Japan Society In February!

Our own Mike Garcia has covered the work of late auteur Nobuhiko Obayashi on this site for a good deal of time. He lives in Spain, although I’d imagine if he resided in my neck of the woods he’d be all-in with what’s going down at Japan Cuts on a yearly basis, particularly with next month’s run of Obayashi-directed classics titled Obayashi ’80s: The Onomichi Trilogy & Kadokawa Years. The program includes sextet of titles including I Are You, You Am Me (Exchange Students) (1982), School in the Crosshairs (1981), The Little Girl Who Conquered Time (1983), Lonely Heart (Miss Lonely) (1985), The Island Closest to Heaven (1984), and His Motorbike, Her Island (1986). Prices vary for members and non-members alike, so if you’re in town and want some classic Japanese delights in your eyes, head to the website and get your tickets before the slate’s weeklong run beginning February […]

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JAPAN CUTS Review: LABYRINTH OF CINEMA – Nobuhiko Obayashi’s cinematic testament, an ode to peace and cinema

Nobuhiko Obayashi´s final film is a real labyrinth of cinema that begins in a movie theater about to close for good, in which three young men enter for an all-night marathon of Japanese war films. Once the lights goes down in the screen room, the magic of cinema begins to operate and they are transported in a breathless cinematic journey through the history of japanese wars from the boshin war until the Second World War and the tragic atomic bomb in Hiroshima. Never following a lineal narrative story- telling, the film has an insane mad paced rythm and an anarchic editing, switching from a vast variety of genres, that comes from silent cinema, musical or even animation, filling the screen with colorful imagery, rapidly skipping from scene to scene having as central axis of the story, Chuya Nakahara´s verses, that becomes the perfect complement to deliver to the audience, a […]

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