World Apartment Horror
Japanese promotional release poster
Directed byKatsuhiro Otomo
Screenplay by
Story bySatoshi Kon
Produced by
  • Yoshihiro Kato
  • Yasuhisa Kazama
StarringHiroki Tanaka
CinematographyNoboru Shinoda
Production
companies
  • General Entertainment Co. Ltd.
  • Sony Music Entertainment
Release date
  • 5 April 1991 (1991-04-05)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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

  1. ^ Gerow, Aaron. "Recognizing 'Others' in a New Japanese Cinema." January 2002. Japan Foundation Newsletter, The. [1] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "2008 Projects". Asian Project Market. Busan International Film Festival. 2008. Archived from the original on March 3, 2014. 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. Archived from the original on December 7, 2014. 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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Works by Katsuhiro Otomo
Works of Satoshi Kon
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