Bibliograph

Hausu, House, 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

Hausu, House, 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

Hausuハウス /

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東宝株式会社 ; 製作, 東宝映像株式会社 ; 製作, 大林宣彦, 山田順彦 ; 原案, 大林千茱萸 ; 脚本, 桂千穂 ; 監督, 大林宣彦

Runtime

Series statement

The Criterion collection, 539

Sub title

House

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

Movie -- Summer plans -- Daddy's big surprise -- Box of memories -- Girls -- Letter to Auntie -- To the countryside -- Kiss of fire -- Satoyama village -- House -- Lonely no more -- Looking tasty -- Searching for Mac -- Not illusions -- Auntie's promise -- Mirror, mirror -- 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 House

Classification