Ob's House

The Strange Worlds of Nobuhiko Obayashi

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Nobuhiko Obayashi and his young actress Tomoyo Harada on the set of Toki o kakeru shôjo (The Girl who Cut Time, 1983). Personal scan from the movie pamphlet.

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Kung Fu - Hausu (House, 1977) Miki Jinbo

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Nerawareta Gakuen  (School in the Crosshairs, 1981). Masami Hasegawa.

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Photos from Nerawareta Gakuen  (School in the Crosshairs, 1981), taken from the cinema flyer.

Starring the Kadokawa heroine Hiroko Yakushimaru and Ryoichi Takayanagi.

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Eiga-chirashi from Nerawareta Gakuen (School in the Crosshairs, 1981), starring the Kadokawa heroine Hiroko Yakushimaru and Ryoichi Takayanagi.

Eiga-chirashi (映画チラシ) are movie flyers, placed in cinema lobbies in Japan to promote current and future movie releases.

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Single's picture sleeve for Toki o kakeru shôjo (The Girl who Cut Time, 1983), featuring young actress Tomoyo Harada.

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Eating the House (1977) A fair revenge...

From left to right : Eriko Tanaka (Melody), Ai Matsubara (Gari), Miki Jinbo (Kung Fu), Kimiko Ikegami (Oshare), Kumiko Ohba (Fanta), Masayo Miyako (Sweet) and Mieko Sato (Mac).

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Nobuhiko Obayashi and Akira Kurosawa on the set of Dreams (1990). (both on the right of the photo)

Obayashi was there to shoot a making-of, released on VHS the 2 November 1990 (150min, produced by Kurosawa Pro and PSC).

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Hausu - Japanese poster ハウス (House), Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977

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Is there a better introduction to Nobuhiko Obayashi than screenshots from his most extravagant films? From top to bottom: Hausu (House, 1977), Kindaichi Kôsuke no Boken (The Adventures of Kindaichi Kosuke, 1979), Nerawareta Gakuen (School in the Crosshairs, 1981), Toki o Kakeru Shôjo (The Girl Who Cut Time, 1983) and Futari (Us Two, 1991)

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Warning:

I'm not using the blog olivier2046.tumblr.com as an art blog anymore. If you want to follow my art work, please go to the Atelier Sentô tumblr page. 

From now, this blog is renamed Ob's House and is dedicated to the films of Nobuhiko Obayashi, a Japanese filmmaker from the 70s, master of handmade special effects & creator of the surreal pulp horror HAUSU.

If you're interested in demon cats, idols travelling through time and schoolgirls firing laser beams from their eyes... STAY TUNED!