ハウス / Hausu : House

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2010]

1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

video file DVD video

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.

Criterion collection ; 539

Criterion collection ; 539.

Haunted houses -- Drama.

Young women -- Drama.

Aunts -- Drama.

Friendship -- Drama.

Fathers and daughters -- Drama.

Japan -- Drama.

Haunted house films.

Horror films.

Fantasy films.

Experimental films.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

大林千茱萸. / Ōbayashi, Chigumi. creator

桂千穂, 1930- / Katsura, Chiho, 1930-2020 screenwriter

大林宣彥, 1938- / Ōbayashi, Nobuhiko, 1938-2020 director

山田順彦. / Yamada, Norihiko. producer

池上季実子, 1959- / Ikegami, Kimiko, 1959- actor

神保美喜, 1960- / Jinbo, Miki, 1960- actor

大場久美子, 1960- / Ōba, Kumiko, 1960- actor

松原愛 / Matsubara, Ai. actor

佐藤美恵子. / Satō, Meiko. actor

鰐淵晴子. / Wanibuchi, Haruko. actor

南田洋子, 1933-2009. / Minamida, Yōko, 1933-2009. actor

東宝株式会社. / Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.

東宝映像株式会社 / Tōhō Eizō Kabushiki Kaisha. / Janus Films. / Criterion Collection (Firm)

Title on container: Nobuhiko Obayashi's House

池上季実子, 神保美喜, 大場久美子, 松原愛, 佐藤美枝子, 田中恵理子, 宮古昌代, 尾崎清彦, 笹沢佐保, 小林亜星, 石上 Mitoshi, 三浦友和, ダンふみ, ゴダイゴ, 鰐淵晴子, 南田洋子. / 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.

In Japanese with optional subtitles in English.

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