Retrospective of Nobuhiko Obayashi's Coming-of-Age Films Hits New York

Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi (1938-2020) took the world of cinema by storm with his 1997 masterpiece House. A campy, cult-classic horror, the film set the stage for his idiosyncratic signature as an artist and director, brimming with otherworldly fantasias, pop-art boldness and acidic surrealism. While the film catapulted him to fame, its towering influence has often eclipsed the range of his work overseas.Now, Obayashi's teenage symphonies are getting their flowers in Obayashi '80s, a fi...