Hausu : House

The Resource Hausu : House
Label
Hausu : House
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
Runtime
88
Series statement
The Criterion collection
Series volume
539
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
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