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Nobuhiko Obayashi tribute thread:
Portrait of the artist as a young man.
The program for Obayashi& #39;s stage version of Grease (yes, really).
Music video for Kaori Sakagami& #39;s song Lace Cardigan. Many classic Onomichi locations. https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm13568829">https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1...
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"It is the movies that proved that humans are capable of imagining peace."
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Tiananmen prevented Obayashi from shooting the finale of Beijing Watermelon on location in China, as intended; the finale was shot on a set. But to honor the young lives lost on June 4th 1989, he inserted 37 seconds of blank white leader into the film: 37 seconds = 6+4+1+9+8+9.
In 2002, Obayashi published a personal guide to the Seto Inland Sea, his beloved home region:
As a 5-6 year old child, Obayashi regularly went to the movies with the young Kaneto Shindo, who was, at the time, a boarder in the Obayashi household.
According to Obayashi, in ‘68, while shooting TV ads in Hollywood, he was asked to lend a hand to a group of young actors who had just shot a low-budget movie, which they were struggling to edit. It bears no Obayashi credit, but Easy Rider might contain an Obayashi splice or two.
Obayashi in a TV ad, or really more like a PSA, for JARO (Japan Advertising Review Organization). JARO promotes truth in advertising, and encourages Japanese consumers to call in and report misleading ads. The phone number hasn& #39;t changed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDAazbSN7K4">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Obayashi directed AKB48 music video, in which he cameos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ4jYWQh7tE">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
A collection of Obayashi TV ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXYxu_TxUI8">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
One of the melancholy pleasures of Obayashi& #39;s cinema is watching his young people grow up on screen.
If you’ll pardon a little self promotion, I’d like to reshare the podcast @fivepoisonskid and I did on Obayashi. It’s the one I’m most proud of: it helped cement our friendship, and I’d like to think that it brought Obayashi one or two new fans. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/snakes-funerals/id1164362481?mt=2&i=1000385281839">https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcas...
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Kyoko & Nobuhiko Obayashi met 60+ years ago in Seijo, a Tokyo neighborhood home to many movie industry people. In addition to appearing in some early films (I believe that& #39;s her on the right, in Confession), Kyoko produced almost all of Obayashi& #39;s movies from the & #39;80s onwards...
...Kyoko was by all accounts an essential collaborator, though her contributions are not well understood in the West. Their partnership was the subject of a documentary that premiered last year at the Tokyo Film Festival, alongside Labyrinth of Cinema. https://2019.tiff-jp.net/en/lineup/film/32SPP08">https://2019.tiff-jp.net/en/lineup...
In the mid 80s, Obayashi worked on a few projects with the great Yukihiro Takahashi, the “third guy” from YMO. They made a music video and a feature, Poisson d’Avril, which stars Takahashi. The film is unavailable but you can listen to Takahashi’s album: https://youtu.be/Y8D6fAl6J_U ">https://youtu.be/Y8D6fAl6J...
Wrapping up this thread shortly, but wanted to say that I’ve probably not emphasized enough Obayashi’s anti-war commitments, which were present from the beginning, even more important near the end. But I did write a piece on that very subject: https://seattlescreenscene.com/2018/03/02/i-was-born-but-nobuhiko-obayashis-youth-movies/">https://seattlescreenscene.com/2018/03/0...
