Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – RareFilm

His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Kiwako Harada, Riki Takeuchi, Noriko Watanabe, Tomokazu Miura

rarefilm — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 16:35:17 +0000

After a failed romance, a temperamental young biker meets a carefree rural girl while riding through her island hometown and gets her obsessed about riding a motorcycle.

Also Known As (AKA): Kare no ootobai, kanojo no shima

IMDB

File Name : His.Motorbike.Her.Island.1986.mkv
File Size : 2.37 GB / 2422.69 MB
Resolution : 1024×552
Duration : 01:30:02

Quality: BRRip
Language: Japanese + commentary
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama, Romance

His.Motorbike.Her.Island.1986.mkv

April Fish / Shigatsu no sakana (1986) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Miyoko Akaza, Nao Asuka, Wakaba Irie

rarefilm — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:21:33 +0000

A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the South Seas.

Also Known As (AKA): Poisson d’avril

IMDB

File Name : Shigatsu no Sakana.mkv
File Size : 7.96 GB / 8148.14 MB
Resolution : 1440×1080 @ 1920×1080
Duration : 01:49:24

Quality: HDTVRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (srt)
Country: Japan
Genres: Comedy

Shigatsu_no_Sakana.mkv
Shigatsu_no_Sakana.srt

The Little Girl Who Conquered Time / Toki o kakeru shôjo (1983) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Tomoyo Harada, Ryôichi Takayanagi, Toshinori Omi

rarefilm — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 12:19:32 +0000

Yoshiyama Kazuko is in the 3rd grade of junior high. One day, she’s cleaning in the laboratory, she notices of the smell of lavender, and fainted. Since then, she acquires a mysterious power to travel time.

Also Known As (AKA): The Girl Who Cut Time, A Garota que Conquistou o Tempo, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

IMDB

File Name : The Little Girl Who Conquered Time 1983.mkv
File Size : 2.2 GB / 2250.19 MB
Resolution : 1024×576
Duration : 01:44:12

Quality: BRRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: Japan
Genres: Romance, Sci-Fi

The_Little_Girl_Who_Conquered_Time_1983.mkv

Émotion (1966) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Sari Akasaka, Sakio Hirata, Jinichi Ishizaki

rarefilm — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 21:55:22 +0000

Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with…a vampire?

Also Known As (AKA): Émotion. Legendary Afternoon/One Day I Saw Dracula

IMDB

File Name : Emotion.1966.720p.mkv
File Size : 1.7 GB / 1739.48 MB
Resolution : 948×720
Duration : 00:39:15

Quality: BRRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: Japan
Genres: Fantasy, Short

Emotion.1966.720p.mkv

Lonelyheart / Sabishinbô (1985) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Yasuko Tomita, Toshinori Omi, Yumiko Fujita

rarefilm — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 20:52:50 +0000

Lonely and love-struck, high-school student Hiroki pursues one girl but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his lonely psyche, or real? An intricate triangle develops, and the viewer can’t quite be sure what is happening until the whole story is neatly resolved at the end.

IMDB

File Name : Lonely.Heart.1985.mkv
File Size : 2126.29 MB
Resolution : 962×576
Duration : 01:52:13
Video : AVC, 2 400 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AAC, 224 kb/s, 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: BRRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English, Japanese (embedded)
Country: Japan
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Lonely.Heart.1985.mkv

Haruka, Nostalgia / Haruka, nosutarujii (1993) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Hiroshi Katsuno, Hikari Ishida, Yôji Matsuda

rarefilm — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 14:36:27 +0000

A fantasy drama about a popular writer who returns to Otaru, his hometown and finds a girl who looks a lot like the woman he once loved.

IMDB

File Name : Haruka nostalgy.mkv
File Size : 1898.37 MB
Resolution : 712×460 @ 844×460
Duration : 02:46:27
Video : AVC, 1 400 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AC-3, 192 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (srt)
Country: Japan
Genres: Drama

Haruka_nostalgy.rar

To the Fields, to the Hills, to the Beaches / Noyuki yamayuki umibe yuki (1986) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Saburô Bôya, Izumi Hara, Yasufumi Hayashi

rarefilm — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 14:23:17 +0000

Summer 1937 Japan begins a war with China. Militaristic moods are growing in the country. A group of Japanese schoolchildren do not understand the militaristic hysteria of adults.

Also Known As (AKA): Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

IMDB

File Name : To the Fields to the Hills to the Beaches 1986.mkv
File Size : 2123.57 MB
Resolution : 704×480 @ 624×480
Duration : 02:15:13
Video : AVC, 2 000 kb/s, 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Audio : AC-3, 192 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (srt)
Country: Japan
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy

To_the_Fields_to_the_Hills_to_the_Beaches_1986.rar

Hanagatami (2017) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Shunsuke Kubozuka, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Keishi Nagatsuka

rarefilm — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 15:46:02 +0000

Based on Kazuo Dan’s 1937 novella, Director Nobuhiko Obayashi, whose surreal phenomenon ‘House (Hausu)’ became an international cult classic, achieves his filmmaking dream of forty years with his new feature ‘Hanagatami’. In the spring of 1941, sixteen-year-old Toshihiko leaves Amsterdam to attend school in Karatsu, a small town on the western coast of Japan, where his aunt Keiko cares for his ailing cousin Mina. Immersed in the seaside’s nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town’s other extraordinary adolescents as they all contend with the war’s inescapable gravitational pull. With his memories as a survivor of World War II echoing in the uncertainty of world events unfolding today, director Obayashi returns us to 1941, a pivotal time for Japan, as the unstoppable momentum of war forcibly seized the lives of youth away to battlefields where they disappeared forever. In dazzling, full-bloom Obayashi style, ‘Hanagatami’ captures the passion, innocence, and struggle of the …

IMDB

File Name : Hanagatami.2017.mkv
File Size : 4103.57 MB
Resolution : 1024×552
Duration : 02:49:15
Video : AVC, 2 874 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AC-3, 448 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 6 channels, 1 stream

Quality: BRRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: Japan
Genres: Drama, War

Hanagatami.2017.mkv

Four Sisters AKA Shimaizaka (1985) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Misako Konno, Atsuko Asano, Yasuko Sawaguchi

rarefilm — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 21:32:29 +0000

Four half-sisters share an unusually close bond during tumultuous times of post-war Japan.

Also Known As (AKA): A Slope of Sisters, Sister Hills

IMDB

File Name : Four.Sisters.1985.1080p.mkv
File Size : 3861.83 MB
Resolution : 1912×1034
Duration : 01:41:43
Video : AVC, 5 180 kb/s, 23.976 (23976/1000) FPS
Audio : AAC, 125 kb/s, 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: WEBRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (srt)
Country: Japan
Genres: Drama

Four.Sisters.1985.1080p.rar

House AKA Hausu (1977) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ohba

rarefilm — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:57:28 +0000

Oshare (Gorgeous) is excited about spending summer vacation with her father, until she finds out that his beautiful, freakishly serene girlfriend Ryouko would be going as well. Oshare decides she will be going to her aunt’s house in the country instead. She brings with her her friends from school – Fanta (who likes to take pictures, and daydreams a lot), KunFuu (who has very good reflexes), Gari/Prof (who is a major nerd), Sweet (who likes to clean), Mac (who eats a lot), and Melody (a musician). However, the girls are unaware that Oshare’s aunt is actually dead and the house is actually haunted. When they arrive at the house, crazy events take place and the girls disappear one by one while slowly discovering the secret behind all the madness.

IMDB

File Name : Hausu.AKA.House.1977.mkv
File Size : 3753.97 MB
Resolution : 768×576
Duration : 01:27:58

Quality: BRRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Comedy, Horror

Hausu.AKA.House.1977.mkv

Beijing Watermelon (1989) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Bengaru, Masako Motai, Yasufumi Hayashi

rarefilm — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 15:31:43 +0000

The film is based on true events. It centers around Shunzo, a popular greengrocer who lives in a city near Tokyo. His life, and that of his wife, Michi and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change when he encounters Li, a poor college student from China.

Also Known As (AKA): Pekin no suika, Pastèques à la pékinoise

IMDB

File Name : Beijing.Watermelon.1989.mkv
File Size : 2042.48 MB
Resolution : 680×480 @ 806×480
Duration : 02:15:24

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Drama

Beijing.Watermelon.1989.mkv

Exchange Students (1982) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Satomi Kobayashi, Toshinori Omi, Makoto Satô

rarefilm — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:39:07 +0000

9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.

Also Known As (AKA): Tenkôsei, Je suis toi tu es moi, I Are You You Am Me, Transfer Student

IMDB

File Name : Exchange.Students.1982.mkv
File Size : 1593.42 MB
Resolution : 688×384 @ 626×384
Duration : 01:52:36

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Japanese
Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Comedy

Exchange.Students.1982.mkv