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The Resource 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, (videorecording)

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, (videorecording)

Label
Hausu : House
Title
Hausu
Title remainder
House
Statement of responsibility
Janus Films ; Tōhō Co., Ltd. ; a Toho Eizo production ; a movie ; concept by Chigumi Ôbayashi ; screenplay by Chiho Katsura ; directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
Title variation
Nobuhiko Obayashi's House
Contributor
Actor
Screenwriter
Creator
Director
Producer
Subject
Genre
Language
  • jpn
  • eng
  • jpn
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
Member of
Awards note
Winner, 1978 Blue Ribbon Award, Best New Director--Nobuhiko Ôbayashi.
Cataloging source
TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Cinematography, Yoshitaka Sakamoto ; production design, Kazuo Satsuya ; music, Asei Kobayashi, Mickie Yoshino ; songs performed by Godiego ; editor, Ogawa Nobuo
Language note
In Japanese with optional subtitles in English
PerformerNote
Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ōba, Ai Matsubara, Mieko Sato, Eriko Tanaka, Masayo Miyako, Kiyohiko Ozaki, Saho Sasazawa, Asei Kobayashi, Mitoshi Ishigami, Tomokazu Miura, Fumi Dan, Godiego, Haruko Wanibuchi, Yoko Minamida
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1930-
  • 1938-
  • 1959-
  • 1960-
  • 1960-
  • 1933-2009
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Ōbayashi, Chigumi
  • Katsura, Chiho
  • Ōbayashi, Nobuhiko
  • Yamada, Norihiko
  • Ikegami, Kimiko
  • Jinbo, Miki
  • Ōba, Kumiko
  • Matsubara, Ai
  • Satō, Meiko
  • Wanibuchi, Haruko
  • Minamida, Yōko
  • Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Tōhō Eizō Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Janus Films
  • Criterion Collection (Firm)
Runtime
88
Series statement
The Criterion collection
Series volume
539
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Haunted houses
  • Young women
  • Aunts
  • Friendship
  • Fathers and daughters
  • Japan
  • Aunts
  • Fathers and daughters
  • Friendship
  • Haunted houses
  • Young women
  • Japan
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
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, (videorecording)
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Originally produced as a motion picture in 1977
  • Special features: Trailer (2 min.); Émotion [featurette] (40 min.); Constructing a "House" [featurette] (46 min.); "House" appraisal [featurette] (4 min.); booklet includes the essay "The Housemaidens" by Chuck Stephens
Accompanying material
1 booklet ([24] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
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
Control code
663150804
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. +
Dimensions
other
Extent
1 videodisc (88 min.)
Isbn
9781604653182
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
715515062213
Other physical details
sd., col.
Publisher number
CC1930D
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(OCoLC)663150804
System details
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital mono.; full screen presentation, preserving the 1.33:1 aspect ratio of the original theatrical exhibition
Video recording format
DVD
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, (videorecording)
Publication
Note
  • Originally produced as a motion picture in 1977
  • Special features: Trailer (2 min.); Émotion [featurette] (40 min.); Constructing a "House" [featurette] (46 min.); "House" appraisal [featurette] (4 min.); booklet includes the essay "The Housemaidens" by Chuck Stephens
Accompanying material
1 booklet ([24] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
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
Control code
663150804
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. +
Dimensions
other
Extent
1 videodisc (88 min.)
Isbn
9781604653182
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
715515062213
Other physical details
sd., col.
Publisher number
CC1930D
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(OCoLC)663150804
System details
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital mono.; full screen presentation, preserving the 1.33:1 aspect ratio of the original theatrical exhibition
Video recording format
DVD

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