Nobuhiko Obayashi
Japanese film director (1938-2020)
5.27body-of-work score · ranked #195 of 2631 directors · 12 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- January 9, 1938 · Onomichi
- Died
- April 10, 2020 · Setagaya
- Nationality
- Japan, Empire of Japan
- Work
- film director, screenwriter, film producer, film editor
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 10.631 citation
- 20.631 citation
- 30.631 citation
- 40.501 citation
- 50.501 citation
- 60.431 citation
- 70.391 citation
- 80.391 citation
- 90.361 citation
- 100.361 citation
- 110.301 citation
- 120.161 citation
Complete filmography
All 36 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1966Emotion
- 1977House
- 1977The Visitor in the Eye
- 1979Take Me Away!
- 1979The Adventures of Kindaichi Kosuke
- 1981The Aimed School
- 1982I Are You, You Am Me
- 1983The Deserted City
- 1983The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- 1984The Island Closest to Heaven
- 1985A Slope of Sisters
- 1985Lonely Heart
- 1986April Fish
- 1986Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
- 1986His Motorbike, Her Island
- 1987The Drifting Classroom
- 1988The Discarnates
- 1988The Strange Couple
- 1989Beijing Watermelon
- 1991Chizuko's Younger Sister
- 1992The Rocking Horsemen
- 1993Haruka, Nostalgia
- 1993Samurai Kids
- 1994Turning Point
- 1995Goodbye for Tomorrow
- 1998Sada
- 1999That Guy
- 2002The Last Snow
- 2004The Reason
- 2007Song of Goodbye
- 2007Switching: Goodbye Me
- 2008Scenery to Remember
- 2012Casting Blossoms to the Sky
- 2014Seven Weeks
- 2017Hanagatami
- 2019Labyrinth of Cinema