House, Hausu, Janus Films ; Tōhō Co., Ltd. ; a Toho Eizo production ; a movie ; concept by Chigumi Ôbayashi ; screenplay by Chiho Katsura ; directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
Type
Label
House, Hausu, Janus Films ; Tōhō Co., Ltd. ; a Toho Eizo production ; a movie ; concept by Chigumi Ôbayashi ; screenplay by Chiho Katsura ; directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
Language
jpn
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
House
Medium
videorecording
Oclc number
663150804
Responsibility statement
Janus Films ; Tōhō Co., Ltd. ; a Toho Eizo production ; a movie ; concept by Chigumi Ôbayashi ; screenplay by Chiho Katsura ; directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
Runtime
88
Series statement
The Criterion collection, 539
Sub title
Hausu
Summary
Tokyo teenager Gorgeous is upset with her long-widowed father--he wants to marry his new girlfriend Ryoko. Seriously miffed, Gorgeous hits the road to visit her aunt in the country, bringing along her best girlfriends Sweet, Melody, Fantasy, Prof, Mac, and Kung Fu. The titular house belongs to the wheelchair bound aunt, whose large white cat has been immortalized in artwork throughout. Things soon start to go very badly for the teenagers. While there are pinwheeling body parts, there are also bits of homage to avant-garde cinema, Looney Tunes cartoons, schlock Italian horror, chop-socky martial arts--all in a dreamlike, phantasmagoria of brightly colored Seventies-era kitsch. This is hardly to everyone's tastes, but it is old-school Japanese insanity of the very best kind
Table Of Contents
A movie -- Summer plans -- Daddy's big surprise -- Box of memories -- The girls -- A letter to Auntie -- To the countryside -- A kiss of fire -- Satoyama village -- House -- Lonely no more -- Looking tasty -- Searching for Mac -- Not illusions -- Auntie's promise -- Mirror, mirror -- A witch cat -- Vanished -- "We're trapped!" -- Keys with teeth -- Unexplainable, unnatural -- Auntie's world -- Kung Fu to the rescue -- Eaten -- Forever -- "Time passes on" -- Color bars
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
Nobuhiko Obayashi's HouseHouseHausu
Classification
Contributor
- Minamida, Yōko, 1933-2009
- Wanibuchi, Haruko
- Ōbayashi, Nobuhiko, 1938-2020
- Katsura, Chiho, 1930-2020
- Jinbo, Miki, 1960-
- Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
- Yamada, Norihiko
- Ōba, Kumiko, 1960-
- Satō, Meiko
- Ikegami, Kimiko, 1959-
- Janus Films
- Tōhō Eizō Kabushiki Kaisha
- Ōbayashi, Chigumi
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Matsubara, Ai
Genre
Subject
Content
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Actor
Director
Producer
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor15
- Minamida, Yōko, 1933-2009
- Wanibuchi, Haruko
- Ōbayashi, Nobuhiko, 1938-2020
- Katsura, Chiho, 1930-2020
- Jinbo, Miki, 1960-
- Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
- Yamada, Norihiko
- Ōba, Kumiko, 1960-
- Satō, Meiko
- Ikegami, Kimiko, 1959-
- Janus Films
- Tōhō Eizō Kabushiki Kaisha
- Ōbayashi, Chigumi
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Matsubara, Ai
- Genre9
- Subject15
- Content1
- resource.originPlace1
- Actor7
- Director1
- Is Part Of1
- Producer1
- resource.screenwriter1
- Mapped to1