Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Antiwar Trilogy

Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Antiwar Trilogy

3 Episodes

Confronting both the specter of World War II and the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, these stunning late-career triumphs from Japanese iconoclast Nobuhiko Obayashi offer a subversive, typically idiosyncratic reflection on national history and tragedy. Replete with the boldly stylized, avant-pop flourishes that define his work (most famously the delirious cult freak-out HOUSE), these narratively distinct but thematically connected films—which culminated in his deeply personal penultimate feature, the forty-years-in-the-making passion project HANAGATAMI—look to the past to issue an urgent warning about the perilous present.

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Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Antiwar Trilogy

3 Episodes

  • Casting Blossoms to the Sky
    2:39:42
    Casting Blossoms to the Sky
    Episode 1

    Casting Blossoms to the Sky

    Episode 1

    Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi • 2012 • Japan
    Starring Yasuko Matsuyuki, Masahiro Takashima, Natsuki Harada

    In the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake, journalist Reiko Endo (Yasuko Matsuyuki) travels to the city of Nagaoka as it prepares for an annual fireworks festival memorializing the fallen v...

  • Seven Weeks
    2:51:29
    Seven Weeks
    Episode 2

    Seven Weeks

    Episode 2

    Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi • 2014 • Japan
    Starring Toru Shinagawa, Takako Tokiwa, Yumi Adachi

    In his follow-up to CASTING BLOSSOMS TO THE SKY, Nobuhiko Obayashi continues to explore themes of lost love, memory, war, and art. At 2:46 PM on March 11, 2013, Mitsuo Suzuki (Toru Shinagawa) takes h...

  • Hanagatami
    2:49:14
    Hanagatami
    Episode 3

    Hanagatami

    Episode 3

    Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi • 2017 • Japan
    Starring Shunsuke Kubozuka, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Keishi Nagatsuka

    After being diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer at the age of eighty, Nobuhiko Obayashi set out to fulfill his filmmaking dream: an adaptation of a 1937 novella by Kazuo Dan that th...

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