Hausu (1977)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Nobuhiko Obayashi

Writers:

Chigumi Obayashi (original story)
Chiho Katsura (screenplay)

Release Date:

September 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Fantasy | Horror

Plot:

Oshare is excited about spending summer vacation with her father, until she finds out that his beautiful...

Plot Keywords:

Well | Coming Of Age | Lipstick | Aunt | Japanese

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Kimiko Ikegami	...	Oshare / Gorgeous
Kumiko Ohba	...	Fanta / Fantasy
Yôko Minamida	...	Grandmother
Ai Matsubara	...	Gari / Prof
Miki Jinbo	...	Kunfuu / Kung-Fu
Masayo Miyako	...	Suuitto / Sweet
Mieko Satoh	...	Matsuku
Eriko Tanaka	...	Merodii / Melody
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Takami Asano	...	Youth Around the Tokyo Station
Fumi Dan	...	Teacher
Steve Fox	...	youth around the Tokyo station
Ippei Hara
Shoichi Hirose
Kanta Ina
Mitsutoshi Ishigami	...	Photographer
Tatsuo Kanai
Chiho Katsura
Asei Kobayashi	...	Farmer selling watermelons
Tomokazu Miura	...	Fiancee
Midori Naitô
Chigumi Obayashi	...	Girl at a shoe store
Kyoko Obayashi	...	Lover #2
Nobuhiko Obayashi	...	Lover#1
Yasuo Onishi
Kiyohiko Ozaki	...	Keisuke Tougou-sensei
Saho Sasazawa	...	Oshare's father
Tommy Snyder	...	youth around the Tokyo station
Yukihide Takekawa	...	youth around the Tokyo station
Haruko Wanibuchi	...	Ryouko Ema
Micky Yoshino	...	youth around the Tokyo station

Also Known As:

House (International: English title) (informal title)

Runtime:

Japan:88 min | Japan:87 min (original version)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

4-Track Stereo

Certification:

Germany:16

Company:

P.S.C.

Quotes:

Oshare: The girls will wake up... when they are hungry.

Now that was different!

Hausu is basically the most bizarre Haunted House movie I've ever seen. The story follows a group of girlfriends who head to the country for vacation. They go to one of the girl's Aunt's house to spend their time. But beknownst to all of them the Aunt isn't really who she says she is. And there's a cat named Snowflake that obviously has some issues. Girls begin experiencing the supernatural and things don't seem to be slowing up. Reading back what I just wrote kinda makes the movie seem not so interesting. Seems like just another haunted house flick. But if you pop in this flick, almost immediately you will realize you've never seen a film like this. Filmed in a lively, colorful way mixed with a fantastic soundtrack, the flick exceeds on all levels of production. Combine the production values with a children's movie feel, then combine that with some blood, violence and nudity, you get a very different hybrid genre of a flick. Hausu is a flick that all fans of unique horror or cinema for that matter should check out.