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Genre | Animation |
Format | Color, Multiple Formats, Subtitled, NTSC |
Contributor | Ikegami, Kimiko, Ohba, Kumiko, Obayashi, Nobuhiko, Minamida, Yoko |
Language | Japanese |
Runtime | 1 hour and 28 minutes |
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How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashis indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunts creaky country home and comes face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions, all realized by Obayashi via a series of mattes, animation, and collage effects. Equal parts absurd and nightmarish, HOUSE might have been beamed to Earth from some other planet. Never before available on home video in the United States, its one of the most exciting cult discoveries in years.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : Japanese
- Product dimensions : 1.78 x 19.05 x 13.72 cm; 77.11 Grams
- Item Model Number : CRRN1930DVD
- Director : Obayashi, Nobuhiko
- Media Format : Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled
- Run time : 1 hour and 28 minutes
- Release date : 26 October 2010
- Actors : Ikegami, Kimiko, Ohba, Kumiko, Minamida, Yoko
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Criterion Collections
- ASIN : B003WKL6XA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: 5,729 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- 4,466 in Movies (Movies & TV)
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この映画の出会いは半ズボンが似合う、昭和の子供のころ、リアルタイムから遅れること10年。当時は土曜の昼間、半ドンの学校から帰ってきたくらいに、映画の再放送をしていた。
本作はそんな一つだった。
数々のレビューで書かれているので、詳細ははぶくが、昭和の精一杯のパニホラ映画、おばちゃまの目玉食い、生首、サブリミナルな言霊、ゴダイゴの不気味で元気な音楽、成田賢の歌も濃い味わいで。
昭和の昼下がり、家に一つしかないテレビで一人で見るのは、昼間でも十分怖かった。
ヌードすらもありがたみが怖さに負けてるくらい、怖かった。
あれから30数年。
今見ると、パロディやギャグも理解できたり、インフェルノな手作り特撮に肝心したり、、ある程度冷静に俯瞰で見れるようになった、が。。
もう内容も充分理解しているにも関わらず、今、自分の家には、DVDとサントラ、それに北米版のブルーレイもある。
なぜにそんなにはまっているのかw
この作品は、いわゆるオタク向けの元祖だと思う。
7人のアイドル、特撮、ちょっとやそっとじゃわからない難しい謎解きのようなパロディや仕掛け、オタク歓喜のメイド服、etc、ついついマニアが思わず調べたくなるようなアイテムが、本作にはぎっしり詰まっている。
HOUSE=おたく、からもお分かりいただけるだろう。
今となっては子供の頃に怖かったのは、その内容よりも、きっと、ぎっしり詰まった情報量の多さ、これからもハマり続けるだろう将来(今の自分だ)、それらに圧倒されたのだと思う。
実際にこの映画のことを考えたり調べたり何度も見直したり、、
今までどれだけ時間を費やしてしまったか。。
調べないと気が済まない何か。
だけども、後半のガリのように、家の正体が分かったところで、結局は食われてしまう。
自分もハウスに食われてしまったわけだ!
一度ハマると人生をダメにさせるほどの映画
あなたも、今日からこの映画に、嫁いでみませんか?

Let me start by saying this: I’m not quite sure I have laughed so much at a film both for the right reasons and the wrong ones, simultaneously.
House is best described as Scooby Doo meets Suspiria—in Japan. It’s part grim fairytale, part children’s TV, part horror spectacle. Everything is designed to appear ludicrous, from the flower-power hippy soundtrack to the 70’s era, acid-trip advertisement style editing. Colour abounds, and the sickly sweet journey of the protagonist to her lonely, beautiful aunt constantly surprises the viewer with vistas both real and painted. The film doesn’t seek to conceal this however— more often than not it’s very clear that what you see is absurd, but frequently lovely, illusion.
From the moment Beauty and her plucky stock character school-friends arrive at the titular ‘House’, we quickly nosedive into potent surrealism: Cupboards are karate kicked; rats fly through the air; a cat magically winks and spears a lizard. In one of the best scenes, the aunt waltzes into the fridge, closing herself inside. It’s almost too much to process. There’s a balletic quality to the preposterousness that never fails to enthral.
Fundamentally however, underneath all of the absurdity lies a surprisingly magical experience. There’s more under the surface than it might appear, and House manages to capture something of a Miyazaki-esque nostalgia, a relentlessly cheerful, untroubled depiction of childhood friendship and adventures abroad.
I won’t divulge much more about the film, because it really must be witnessed, and felt, to be believed.
Highly recommended, especially for fans of anime and Japanese cinema.

Hausu is a cult classic. And that’s great but it needs to be bigger. We should have an annual viewing tradition on Halloween night. Considering this was supposed to be Japans answer to “Jaws” we get one of the greatest and original horror films of ALL time. This might not be as adored as “Jaws” and that’s understandable. But we do get a special movie. A popcorn movie. Are there deeper themes in the film, scathing social commentary? Honestly it doesn’t matter. Hausu is a feast for the eyes and ears. A multicoloured rainbow of cats, blood, kung-fu, skeletons, floating heads and of course demonic bed matresses
The plot is perfectly simple too. An accessible plot is a step towards world domination for Hausu. A group of teenage friends travel to an old house to visit one of the girls aunties. They arrive at the house then chaos ensues. What seperates Hausu from other haunted house films is it’s incredible set design, use of colour and embracing of low quality D.I.Y. effects.
The painted sets in Hausu (one set being used in a hilarious meta joke in one scene) are beautiful. From the hills to the sunset clouds, each set is crafted expertly only heightening the dream like quality of the film.


Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 June 2018
Hausu is a cult classic. And that’s great but it needs to be bigger. We should have an annual viewing tradition on Halloween night. Considering this was supposed to be Japans answer to “Jaws” we get one of the greatest and original horror films of ALL time. This might not be as adored as “Jaws” and that’s understandable. But we do get a special movie. A popcorn movie. Are there deeper themes in the film, scathing social commentary? Honestly it doesn’t matter. Hausu is a feast for the eyes and ears. A multicoloured rainbow of cats, blood, kung-fu, skeletons, floating heads and of course demonic bed matresses
The plot is perfectly simple too. An accessible plot is a step towards world domination for Hausu. A group of teenage friends travel to an old house to visit one of the girls aunties. They arrive at the house then chaos ensues. What seperates Hausu from other haunted house films is it’s incredible set design, use of colour and embracing of low quality D.I.Y. effects.
The painted sets in Hausu (one set being used in a hilarious meta joke in one scene) are beautiful. From the hills to the sunset clouds, each set is crafted expertly only heightening the dream like quality of the film.









Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2020
