A 60-year love affair with cinema — and each other.
After meeting as college students in the cinema town of Seijo, husband and wife Nobuhiko and Kyoko Obayashi have gone on to direct and produce acclaimed films together for 60 years.
Direction
Two directors capturing two directors — meta and deeply respectful.
Production
Archival footage spanning six decades of Japanese cinema history.
Director
Isshin Inudo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Seijo is a tiny Tokyo suburb that produced an absurd concentration of Japanese New Wave talent — think of it as Japan's version of the French Cahiers crowd.
Nobuhiko Obayashi made 'House' (1977), one of the most unhinged horror films ever, while Kyoko produced — their dynamic was avant-garde chaos meets steady grounding.
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