Watch Order
0 / 5 watchedFive key features in release order.
About Nobuhiko Obayashi
Nobuhiko Obayashi directed from House in 1977 to Labyrinth of Cinema in 2019, mixing pop collage horror with gentle youth dramas. House brings the haunted schoolgirls fever dream, School in the Crosshairs gives teen ESP comedy, and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time gives the tender 1983 time slip romance. The run spans studio experiments and late war memory films.
Hanagatami returns to wartime youth in 2017, and Labyrinth of Cinema closes the career in 2019 with a theater trip through film history. Watch House first, then the two school fantasies, then the late pair. No franchise links them, so release order shows the arc from ad man chaos to elegy.
Good to know
Start with House for the collage horror rules that echo through the later fantasies. The two school films share teen leads and summer light, so they pair well before the heavier late work. Hanagatami and Labyrinth of Cinema assume comfort with long runtimes and stage tone. These five features span the career from 1977 breakthrough to 2019 farewell across distinct stories.
