World Apartment Horror (1991)

Original title

ワールドアパートメントホラー

Directed by

Katsuhiro Otomo

Genre

comedy film, horror film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

R

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A yakuza henchman tries to evict a Tokyo apartment filled with foreigners. He struggles with language barriers and supernatural spirits.

chaotichumoroustensequirkydarkly comicspookyfast-pacedunpredictable

What happens

World Apartment Horror (Japanese: ワールド・アパートメント・ホラー, Hepburn: 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. 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. A manga adaptation by Kon was published by Kodansha, under the same title, on August 1, 1991. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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