Programmed June 2024

Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi

The language of cinema is limitless in the ecstatically inspired universe of Japanese avant-pop visionary Nobuhiko Obayashi, who gleefully bridged the experimental and the mainstream over the course of a wildly prolific career. From his debut feature—the eyeball-zapping cult-horror freakout House—to his deeply personal, career-capping Antiwar Trilogy ( Casting Blossoms to the Sky , Seven Weeks , Hanagatami ), Obayashi remained restlessly inventive, injecting even the most commercial of projects with moments of startling subversion and unexpected blasts of experimental lunacy.