Nobuhiko Obayashi Japanese Director Dead at 82

Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi died Friday in Tokyo of lung cancer. He was 82.

Born in Onomichi, a port on Japan’s Inland Sea, in 1938, Obayashi began making films as a child, using a projector and film owned by his physician father.

A pioneering experimental filmmaker in the 1960s,

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