Nobuhiko Obayashi’s answer to Spielberg’s Jaws is a revolutionary piece of cinema that you must watch.
After Steven Spielberg’s Jaws became the highest-grossing film of all time in 1975, becoming the movie that marked a turning point in cinematic history, the film company Toho approached director Nobuhik Obayashi with the suggestion to make a film like Jaws.
The result was Hausu (or House), a film heavily influenced by ideas from Obayashi’s daughter. It was a bizarre fever dream that turned Bruce the Shark into a mischievous cat and dealt with the horrors of aging. The film was an instant hit with the youth culture of Japan but was never officially screened in the United States until the distribution rights were bought by Janus Films in the late 2000s.
Author: Alyssa Miller
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