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In this Dec. 2017, file photo, Japanese filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi speaks before the advance screening of his film Hanagatami, in Karatsu, Saga prefecture, western Japan. Obayashi, one of Japan's most prolific filmmakers who devoted his works to depicting war’s horrors and singing the eternal power of movies, has died. He was 82. The official site for his latest film, “Labyrinth of Cinema,” said on its online site Saturday, April 10, that Obayashi died late Friday, April 9. (Kyodo News via AP)

Filmmaker Obayashi, who portrayed war’s horrors, dead at 82

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this Oct. 11, 2019, photo, Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi holds up his hand in the sign language of “I love you” to stress that is an important message in his films, during an interview at his studio in Tokyo. Obayashi has been diagnosed with fatal lung cancer, but his confrontation with death began so long ago it has characterized his entire four decades of filmmaking. Obayashi has stayed true to himself during that whole time, producing more than 40 movies and thousands of TV shows, commercials and other video, devoted to sending the same message, over and over, to warn the world of the horrors of war. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

Obayashi’s 40-film career defined by warning of war’s horror

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press