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Nobuhiko Obayashi's House [digital videodisc] = [Hausu] / Janus Films ; Tōhō Co., Ltd.

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[New York, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2010]

Haunted houses -- Drama.

Young women -- Drama.

Aunts -- Drama.

Friendship -- Drama.

Fathers and daughters -- Drama.

Japan -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 539.

1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

DVD special edition.

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.

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.

Winner, 1978 Blue Ribbon Award, Best New Director--Nobuhiko Ôbayashi.

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