The veteran director was a pioneer of Japanese experimental cinema who financed many of his films through his work on thousands of TV commercials.
Japanese auteur Nobuhiko Obayashi will be this year's director in focus at the Tokyo International Film Festival, where his latest filmBorn in Hiroshima in 1938, Obayashi was set to follow his family's traditional path into medicine, only to change course and make a name for himself with experimental films while a student at Tokyo's Seijo University in the late 1950s.
He would continue to develop his distinctive rich visual style through the 1960s and 1970s, while making thousands of TV commercials, including some featuring Charles Bronson, Sophia Loren and Catherine Deneuve.became a cult classic and his later independent productions went on to win acclaim and awards both domestically and overseas.
"I have been making personal films with funds earned by creating TV commercials for 60 years. Invited by the major studio Toho, despite being an outsider, I shot, which allowed me to recognize that even an aesthetic literary work could be adapted to the commercial film genre," said Obayashi.The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
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