World Apartment Horror

World Apartment Horror

Japanese promotional release poster
Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo
Produced by
  • Yoshihiro Kato
  • Yasuhisa Kazama
Screenplay by
Starring
Cinematography Noboru Shinoda
Production
company
  • General Entertainment Co. Ltd.
  • Sony Music Entertainment
Release date
  • 5 April 1991 (1991-04-05)
Running time
97 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

World Apartment Horror (ワールド・アパートメント・ホラー, Wārudo apātomento horā) is a 1991 horror comedy film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, with a screenplay by Otomo and Keiko Nobumoto from a story by Satoshi Kon.[1] The film stars Sabu (later a film director) as a yakuza henchmen who encounters language problems and evil spirits in his attempts to evict a Tokyo apartment full of foreigners, a role for which he received the Best New Actor Award at the Yokohama Film Festival in 1992.[2][3]

A manga adaptation created by Kon was published by Kodansha, under the same title, on August 1, 1991.[2][4][5]

References

  1. Gerow, Aaron. "Recognizing 'Others' in a New Japanese Cinema." January 2002. Japan Foundation Newsletter, The.
  2. 1 2 Osmond, Andrew (September 30, 2009). Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist. Berkeley, California: Stonebridge Press. pp. 17, 60. ISBN 978-1933330747. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
  3. "2008 Projects". Asian Project Market. Busan International Film Festival. 2008. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
  4. 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. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
  5. 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.
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