Nobuhiko Obayashi, one of Japan’s most prolific filmmakers who devoted his works to depicting war's horrors and singing the eternal power of movies, has died
Nobuhiko Obayashi, one of Japan’s most prolific filmmakers who devoted his works to depicting war’s horrors and singing the eternal power of movies, has died. He was 82.Obayashi was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2016 and was told he had just a few months. But he continued working, appearing frail and often in a wheelchair.
Obayashi stayed stubbornly true to his core pacifist message through more than 40 movies and thousands of TV shows, commercials and other video. His other popular films include his 1977 “House,” a horror comedy about youngsters who amble into a haunted house, and “Hanagatami,” released in 2017, another take on his perennial themes of young love and the injustices of war that unfolds in iridescent hues.
His works lack Hollywood’s action-packed plots and neat finales. Instead, they appear to start from nowhere and end, then start up again, weaving in and out of scenes, often traveling in time.
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