opens in Salt Lake City this weekend.
First screening of all-new 35mm print!
Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
The film was the feature-length directing debut for Obayashi, who based the film on an idea from his 7-year-old daughter. Before House, Obaysashi primarily directed television commercials A teenage girl named Oshare (nicknamed "Gorgeous" by her friends) discovers that her widowed father has begun dating again. Furthermore, Oshare's father states he intends to bring his new fiance on their yearly summer vacation. Furious, Oshare impulsively invites her friends to come with her to her aunt's house, despite not having seen the aunt in years.
Arriving, they find the aunt, a wheelchair user, and agree to fix up her run down estate located in the woods. However, unknown to anyone, the aunt is secretly a spirit who feeds off the flesh of "marriageable" young women who stumble upon her home. Possessing her niece, the aunt murders the girls one by one with help from her bewitched house. In the end, the aunt takes over Oshare's body so she can go on waiting for her long lost fiancee, who went missing in action during World War II.
Oshare (Gorgeous) is excited about spending summer vacation with her father, until she finds out that his beautiful, freakishly serene girlfriend Ryouko would be going as well. Oshare decides she will be going to her aunt's house in the country instead. She brings with her her friends from school - Fanta (who likes to take pictures, and daydreams a lot), KunFuu (who has very good reflexes), Gari/Prof (who is a major nerd), Sweet (who likes to clean), Mac (who eats a lot), and Melody (a musician). However, the girls are unaware that Oshare's aunt is actually dead and the house is actually haunted. When they arrive at the house, crazy events take place and the girls disappear one by one while slowly discovering the secret behind all the madness.
Hausu (1977)
Japan 26 August 1977
USA September 1977
Canada 29 October 2009
USA 15 January 2010 AKA
Ei Japan
Ie Japan
* Aunt
* Well
* Absurd Humor
* Levitation
* High School Friends
* Severed Head
* Lipstick
* Flashback
* Watermelon
* Experimental Film
* Sexual Denial
* Female Frontal Nudity
* Bare Butt
* Best Friend
* Old Mansion
* Butt
* Teacher
* Surrealism
* One Word Title
* Haunted House
* Bare Breasts
* Supernatural Power
* Coming Of Age
* Nudity
* Blood
* Kung Fu
* Mirror
* Satire
* Breasts
* Partial Nudity
* Furniture
* Death
* Skeleton
* Ghost
* Train
* Piano
* Visual Hallucination
* Photograph
* Telephone
* Psychedelic
* Bathing Scene
* Cat
* Japanese
* Girl Frontal Nudity
Oshare: Fanta, you're fantasizing! Oshare: The girls will wake up... when they are hungry.Farmer selling watermelons: Do you like watermelons? Keisuke Tougou-sensei: No! I like bananas!Farmer selling watermelons: Bananas? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076162/quotes?qt0498688
Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
Produced by Nobuhiko Obayashi
Tomoyuki Tanaka (Executive Producer)
Written by Nobuhiko Obayashi
Chiho Katsura
Music by Micky Yoshino
Asei Kobayashi
Godiego (songs)
Cinematography Yoshitaka Sakamoto
Distributed by Toho
Language Japanese http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076162/
1. Janus Films
2. Rapid Eye Movies (REM)
An update and reminder for our U.S. readers. Nobuhiko Obayashi's wonderfully insane 70's horror film House (or Hausu) is currently touring the Us with a new print. It's not just sticking to the big cities this time, either. Absolutely required viewing! Imagine Takashi Miike directing Evil Dead 2 in the 70's and you may start to get an idea of the experience you're in for.
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Nickname
OBTrade Mark A student of piano, he features the instrument prominently in numerousfilms, particularly Hausu (1977) and Hyôryu kyôshitsu (1987).
TriviaHe was given his nickname in the 70s, when he was directing some commercials with Kirk Douglas and Charles Bronson. They had difficulty with his last name, so they shorted it to "OB."
After Ishiro Honda's death in 1993, Obayashi included his photograph in his film Samurai Kids, as the family's late grandfather.
Obayashi is well known as a "TV talent" (guest celebrity) on Japanese talk shows, game shows, and commercials.
Writing credits
Chigumi Obayashi (original story)Chiho Katsura (screenplay)
Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification
Kimiko Ikegami ... Oshare / Gorgeous
Kumiko Ohba ... Fanta / Fantasy
Yôko Minamida ... Obâsan
Ai Matsubara ... Gari / Prof
Miki Jinbo ... Kunfû / Kung-Fu
Masayo Miyako ... Sûitto / Sweet
Mieko Satoh ... Matsuku
Eriko Tanaka ... Merodî / Melody
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Takami Asano ... Youth Around the Tokyo Station
Fumi Dan ... Sensei
Steve Fox ... youth around the Tokyo station
Ippei Hara
Shôichi Hirose
Kanta Ina
Mitsutoshi Ishigami ... Photographer
Tatsuo Kanai
Chiho Katsura
Asei Kobayashi ... Farmer selling watermelons
Tomokazu Miura ... Fiancée
Midori Naitô
Chigumi Obayashi ... Girl at a shoe store
Kyoko Obayashi ... Lover #2
Nobuhiko Obayashi ... Lover#1
Yasuo Ônishi
Kiyohiko Ozaki ... Keisuke Tôgô-sensei
Saho Sasazawa ... Oshare no otôsan
Tommy Snyder ... youth around the Tokyo station
Yukihide Takekawa ... youth around the Tokyo station
Haruko Wanibuchi ... Ryôko Ema
Micky Yoshino ... youth around the Tokyo station
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Produced by
Nobuhiko Obayashi .... producer
Tomoyuki Tanaka .... executive producer
Yorihiko Yamada .... producer
Original Music by
Asei Kobayashi
Micky Yoshino
Cinematography by
Yoshitaka Sakamoto
Film Editing by
Nobuo Ogawa
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Kôhei Oguri .... first assistant director
Kazuo Satsuya .... assistant director
Sound Department
Shohei Hayashi .... sound designer
Special Effects by
Nobuhiko Obayashi .... director of special effects
Camera and Electrical Department
Shinji Kojima .... gaffer
Takashi Nakao .... still photographer
Music Department
Godiego .... musician
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