Nobuhiko Obayashi

Nobuhiko Obayashi was born on 9 January 1938 in Onomichi, in Hiroshima Prefecture, the son of a doctor. As a child, he was already making hand-drawn animated films. In the sixties he made experimental short films, then directed thousands of commercials for television, some of them with Western stars. He went on to direct some forty feature films, several of them shot in his home town, and devoted his last years to films about the war. He died of cancer in April 2020.

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• CinemaHouseハウスNobuhiko Obayashi · 1977Cinema