What is Nobuhiko Obayashi?
[[File:Nobuhiko Obayashi cropped 2 Nobuhiko Obayashi 201911.jpg|right|200px]] {{nihongo|'''Nobuhiko Obayashi'''|大林 宣彦|Ōbayashi Nobuhiko|January 9, 1938 – April 10, 2020}} was a Japanese [[movie director|director]], [[screenwriter]] and [[movie editing|editor]]. He was born in [[Onomichi, Hiroshima|Onomichi]], [[Hiroshima]], [[Japan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/movies/15house.html|title=7 Frightened Teenagers in Nobuhiko Obayashi's First Feature|last=Dargis|first=Manohla|date=14 January 2010|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=10 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/10/31/films/life-spent-working-among-japans-movie-greats/#.XpD2XfhKhPY|title=Nobuhiko Obayashi: A life spent working among Japan's movie greats|last=Schilling|first=Mark|date=31 October 2019|work=[[The Japan Times]]|access-date=10 April 2020}}</ref> He was best known as the director of the 1977 [[horror]] movie ''[[House (1977 movie)|House]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/obayashis-40-year-career-defined-warning-wars-horror-66559049|title=Obayashi's 40-film career defined by warning of war's horror|last=Kageyama|first=Yuri|date=27 October 2019|publisher=[[ABC News]]|access-date=10 April 2020}}</ref> His other best movies are ''[[Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (1983 movie)|Toki o Kakeru Shōjo]]'' and ''[[Hanagatami]]''. Obayashi died on April 10, 2020 in [[Tokyo]] of [[lung cancer]] at the age of 82.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20200411-04100252-sph-ent|title=映画監督の大林宣彦氏、８２歳で死去 肺がんで余命３か月の宣告から３年８か月|date=11 April 2020|website=[[Yahoo! Japan]]|access-date=10 April 2020|archive-date=10 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200410154722/https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20200411-04100252-sph-ent|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3612601/r-p-hausu-filmmaker-nobuhiko-obayashi-passed-away-82/|title=[R.I.P.] 'Hausu' Filmmaker Nobuhiko Ôbayashi Has Passed Away at 82|last=Squires