The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Through the 1980s and onwards Obayashi continued to make feature films and broadened his mainstream appeal. He directed a number of coming-of-age films such as "I Are You, You Am Me" (1982), "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" (1983), and "Lonely Heart" (1985)—which together form his "Onomichi trilogy", named after the town where he was born—as well as "Chizuko's Younger Sister" (1991).