#obayashi

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Hausu Cat and Videodrome TV. Two film sculptures by Arte Feudo. Available at Etsy. Click here!

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Emotion (1966) Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi

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Hey it's the 4th anniversary of Obayashi's passing. Watch one of his movies today for me.

I saw a lot of people watch House this past October. If you're one of those people reading this, hi! I'm not going to talk about House in this post because it's a movie that's very straight forward about it's themes and very easily explained by just, watching the movie. What I am going to share is, the thing I excitedly DM people when I find they've watched House for the first time. I'm going to tell you where to watch more films by Nobuhiko Obayashi.

Nobuhiko Obayashi was very prolific, before I watched House I was under the impression that this was a one off and that the director never made anything since, I was very happy to find out this wasn't the case!

If you want to read something about his career, (you do! he was super interesting!) Here's this career overview that I really like, which I think works a lot better than a where-to-start-with-obayashi (some of the ones I've seen are quite odd)

If you prefer videos there's a great video that I watched just recently by Pyramid Inu about Obayashi. This ones great if you want to have a little sampler of a bunch of his movies. They watch around 26 in total and each gets a couple minutes on average. After that you might ask yourself, hey where can I watch his movies. Well,

A very kind and diligent twitter user by the name of capybaroness (shout outs) has gone to the effort of putting together a very comprehensive mega folder (which can be found here) which acts as a sort of career overview. There are some absences which are detailed in the FAQ. I downloaded basically everything from there over the course of about a month but I think you can skirt the mega download limits if you use a VPN in my understanding (i think she goes through this in the FAQ also) *the screenshots above are from Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast. That would be my personal recommendation! It's a story about rising nationalism in the months leading up to World War 2 and the way in which kids internalize the things they see adults do around them through play. It sounds like a heavy movie but it's not! until it is, but before that it's a live action cartoon. Incredibly funny and sweet and then the ending completely breaks your heart. If you're going to watch this one, I'd recommend the colour version first because they do something different with the colour version that I can't imagine the black and white version topping. The colour version can be found here and is also available to watch on youtube!

lastly, if you're sold and have a physical media player, third window has an excellent (but still incomplete! please release more!) selection of his work available on blu-ray.

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HOUSE :: ハウス（1977） Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi

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House / Hausu (1977) dir. Nobuhiko Ōbayashi

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HAUSU (HOUSE) | ハウス (1977) dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi

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Kimiko Ikegami | House

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His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) // dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi

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School in the Crosshairs (Nobuhiko Ōbayashi, 1981)

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House (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)

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Nobuhiko confirmed he cried in the recording booth like yeah no shit I could HEAR YOU WEEPING THROUGH YOUR LINES

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women in horror: red

carrie (1976)

house (1977)

suspiria (1977)

pearl (2022)

the shining (1980)

the love witch (2016)

black swan (2010)

us (2019)

terfs dni with this post

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Hanagatami (2017) | dir. Nobuhiko Ōbayashi