3.25.2010

Open House (ハウス Hausu) This Weekend for Mormons: World's Weirdest Clip from World's Weirdest Movie by Limbs Andthings (videos)





House (ハウス Hausu)
World's Weirdest Movie
by Limbs Andthings (videos)
2:18 http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=104719336228539

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
OB


Trade Mark

A student of piano, he features the instrument prominently in numerousfilms, particularly Hausu (1977) and Hyôryu kyôshitsu (1987).


Trivia

He 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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