World Apartment Horror
1991 Japanese film
- Katsuhiro Otomo
- Keiko Nobumoto
- Yoshihiro Kato
- Yasuhisa Kazama
Production
companies
companies
- General Entertainment Co. Ltd.
- Sony Music Entertainment
Release date
- 5 April 1991 (1991-04-05)
Running time
World Apartment Horror (ワールド・アパートメント・ホラー, Wārudo apātomento horā) is a 1991 Japanese comedy horror film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, with a screenplay by Otomo and Keiko Nobumoto from a story by Satoshi Kon.[1] The film stars Sabu (credited as Hiroki Tanaka) as a yakuza henchman who encounters the language barrier and evil spirits in his attempts to evict a Tokyo apartment full of foreigners.
Sabu received the Best New Actor Award at the Yokohama Film Festival in 1992.[2][3] A manga adaptation by Kon was published by Kodansha, under the same title, on August 1, 1991.[2][4][5]
References
- ^ Gerow, Aaron. "Recognizing 'Others' in a New Japanese Cinema." January 2002. Japan Foundation Newsletter, The. [1] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Osmond, Andrew (September 30, 2009). Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist. Berkeley, California: Stonebridge Press. pp. 17, 60. ISBN 978-1933330747. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
- ^ "2008 Projects". Asian Project Market. Busan International Film Festival. 2008. Archived from the original on March 3, 2014. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
- ^ Kon, Satoshi (June 16, 2011). 今敏アニメ全仕事 [Kon Satoshi Animation All of the Works] (in Japanese). Tokyo: G.B. p. 73. ISBN 978-4901841948. Archived from the original on December 7, 2014. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
- ^ Kon, Satoshi (August 1, 1991). ワールド・アパートメントホラー [World Apartment Horror] (in Japanese). Kodansha. ISBN 978-4-06-313241-0. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
External links
- World Apartment Horror at IMDb
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Works by Katsuhiro Otomo
- Akira (franchise)
- Short Peace (1979)
- Highway Star (1979)
- Fireball (1979)
- Domu: A Child's Dream (1980)
- Akira (1982)
- The Legend of Mother Sarah (1990)
- Batman: Black & White #4 (The Third Mask) (1996)
- Hipira (2001)
- "Construction Cancellation Order" in Neo Tokyo (1987)
- "Opening / Ending" in Robot Carnival (1987)
- Akira (1988)
- World Apartment Horror (1991)
- "Cannon Fodder" in Memories (1995)
- Steamboy (2004)
- Mushishi (2006)
- "Combustible" in Short Peace (2013)
- Orbital Era (TBA)
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