World Apartment Horror

World Apartment Horror (ワールド・アパートメント・ホラー Wārudo apātomento horā) is a 1991 live-action feature 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. 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.

External links

• World Apartment Horror at the Internet Movie Database