Movies: Takeshi Ōbayashi

  • 1999
    Godzilla 2000: Millennium

    Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)

    Godzilla 2000: Millennium

    6.91999HD

    An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters are further complicated when a giant meteor is discovered in the Ibaragi Prefecture. The mysterious rock...

    Godzilla 2000: Millennium
  • 2008
    Achilles and the Tortoise

    Achilles and the Tortoise (2008)

    Achilles and the Tortoise

    72008HD

    Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks....

    Achilles and the Tortoise
  • 1983
    Antarctica

    Antarctica (1983)

    Antarctica

    7.21983HD

    Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica....

    Antarctica
  • 1970
    Heroic Purgatory

    Heroic Purgatory (1970)

    Heroic Purgatory

    6.91970HD

    Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pretending to be the father, comes to get her back; Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her...

    Heroic Purgatory
  • 1990
    Heaven and Earth

    Heaven and Earth (1990)

    Heaven and Earth

    6.21990HD

    Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across the countryside, engaging in massive battles of cavalry and infantry. Younger and less brutal, Kageto...

    Heaven and Earth
  • 1981
    The Imperial Navy

    The Imperial Navy (1981)

    The Imperial Navy

    6.61981HD

    A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War....

    The Imperial Navy
  • 2010
    SP: The Motion Picture

    SP: The Motion Picture (2010)

    SP: The Motion Picture

    82010HD

    At an event hall in Roppongi Hills, there is a charity event for landmine eradication. Kaoru does security with Security Police officers Soichiro Ogata, Eri Sasamoto, Takahumi Yamamoto and Mitsuo Ishida. Kaoru Inoue senses a threatening existence and...

    SP: The Motion Picture
  • 1977
    Space Battleship Yamato

    Space Battleship Yamato (1977)

    Space Battleship Yamato

    8.71977HD

    When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic travel and set off on a mission to retrieve a neutralizer that will eradicate the radiation from Earth's ...

    Space Battleship Yamato
  • 2008
    Chameleon

    Chameleon (2008)

    Chameleon

    5.72008HD

    Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-artists. One day, Goro witnesses a group of men kidnapping a middle-aged man in the parking garage. Goro records the man on his cell phone without knowin...

    Chameleon
  • 1998
    Memory & Desire

    Memory & Desire (1998)

    Memory & Desire

    4.81998HD

    Sayo and Keiji have eloped to New Zealand to marry, away from the interference of Keiji's disapproving mother in Japan. On their honeymoon, they have the freedom to express their love away from her repressive influence. However, on what should be the...

    Memory & Desire
  • 1985
    Bishimai: hagu!

    Bishimai: hagu! (1985)

    Bishimai: hagu!

    5.81985HD

    Two unmarried sisters live together. They both have careers and boyfriends. And in the end they always have each other....

    Bishimai: hagu!
  • 1983
    Lanterns on Blue Waters

    Lanterns on Blue Waters (1983)

    Lanterns on Blue Waters

    5.21983HD

    The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinhe...

    Lanterns on Blue Waters
  • 1984
    Beaten by Black Rain

    Beaten by Black Rain (1984)

    Beaten by Black Rain

    5.51984HD

    Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are still physically and emotionally devastated by the event. Kuroi Ame ni Utarete tells the interlocking stories of a group of survivors who frequent Stan...

    Beaten by Black Rain
  • 2002
    Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy

    Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy (2002)

    Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy

    6.72002HD

    "Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy" centers around five friends who are residents in a Tokyo apartment complex. Now senior high school students, the five friends live the wild life in Harajuku before encountering unforeseen surprises....

    Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy
  • 1973
    Sunset Sunrise

    Sunset Sunrise (1973)

    Sunset Sunrise

    8.21973HD

    Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara in 1971, Sunset Sunrise (Hi wa shizumi, hi wa noboru) is a “hippie” road movie chronicling the trek that a handful of people take in order to reach Katmandú, the capital of Nepal....

    Sunset Sunrise
  • 1997
    The Eyes of Asia

    The Eyes of Asia (1997)

    The Eyes of Asia

    6.71997HD

    Nakaura of Julian (Julião Nakaura), a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1538, as proof that Japan had converted to Christianity. Fifty years after the mission, which so fascinated Europea...

    The Eyes of Asia
  • 1982
    The Highest Honour

    The Highest Honour (1982)

    The Highest Honour

    5.71982HD

    After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results....

    The Highest Honour
  • 2009
    Ekiro

    Ekiro (2009)

    Ekiro

    52009HD

    An employee of a bank goes missing following his retirement from the bank. Veteran detective Yobuno (Koji Yakusho), who is set to retire himself, is charged with the investigating the missing person case. Det. Yobuno quickly finds more mysterious as ...

    Ekiro
  • 1992
    Heavenly Sin

    Heavenly Sin (1992)

    Heavenly Sin

    3.51992HD

    Elite lawyer Ryoko enlists the help of a foreign mafia in rescuing her son from a criminal who holds grudge against her....

    Heavenly Sin
  • 1985
    Spring Bell

    Spring Bell (1985)

    Spring Bell

    61985HD

    Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, despite his wishes, and the two live separately. Feeling lonely and neglected by her husband, she imm...

    Spring Bell