House (Hausu)

i'd like to see that. HOUSE was so fucking good. i saw it once, in my backyard, projected onto siding so there were horizontal lines everywhere.

where can one find HIS MOTORBIKE?

Has anyone seen Labyrinth of Cinema?

I'm sure there was some discussion on another thread of a collection of his getting a release, but now I can't find it and Im not sure if His Motorbike was one of them.

xxpost Not sure what the ILX etiquette is in 2021 for discussing certain trackers.

Tempting: https://waxworkrecords.com/collections/all/products/hausu?&utm_campaign=campaign%3A+HAUSU+On+Sale+Now%21+%286352a4d97d08b8001c44f6d8%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=omnisend&omnisendContactID=5d00597d60eca9ce27209287

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On Criterion Channel. Never watched House.

I saw Labyrinth of Cinema a couple years ago, it was exhausting, especially in the first hour, but I'm really glad to have seen it, hell of a final statement.

House is a riot, you should make time if you're at all curious.

house IS a blast but I also keep waiting for other obayashi movies to get a little more love. such a rich catalog of films that it feels like it should just be a matter of time before they get rediscovered and we get lots of obayashi retros at repertory cinemas and fun stuff like that.

have to admit, I'll prob be disappointed, but some of the descriptions of the new ford coppola movie's garish digital aesthetic are making me think of obayashi's last few anti-war movies. like, they're simultaneously super sincere, emotional movies that also... kinda feel like PS1 game cut-scenes? <3

Yeah we watched Casting Blossoms to the Sky a few weeks back and it was a dizzying mix of naturalism, artifice, abstraction and fantasy with a very serious heart. It was ever the case with him, some of those 80s films like School in the Crosshairs are positively delirious by their climaxes. Singular dude.

school in the crosshairs is an absolute blast. top 5 obayashi for me.

casting blossoms also excellent. something about the super emotional subject matter + super artificial visuals was very moving and i’m not quite sure why

For me it was the presence of some of the real people and the feeling that they haven’t been heard much. Felt like the film shared its discovery process for giving these sentiments and stories their due.

well put! for me, it was like the movie and esp the dramatization in the movie itself functioned like an extreme cathartic release.

i cannot believe i had the kind of dumb confidence to think it was a good idea to show this a few months into the relationship with my now spouse.

like i just watched saltburn and i immediately texted her "may be too salacious to watch on an airline flight!"

Obayashi does have a cult bubbling imo thanks in part to all those Third Window releases; if you look up his films on letterboxd there's a lot of enthusiasts!

If you want full goofy Obayashi I can recommend The Rocking Horsemen about a bunch of high schoolers forming a band inspired by The Ventures. The Japanese title translates roughly as Teenage Dangalangalangalangalang which is about right. Very affectionate.

Obayashi does have a cult bubbling imo thanks in part to all those Third Window releases; if you look up his films on letterboxd there's a lot of enthusiasts!

oh yeah, I have that 80s third window set. great stuff. it's cool that more people are seeing some of the others but that's still a pretty small slice from such a big catalog! I've noticed that criterion is now streaming a few others (including sada!), so I imagine we'll get even more soon.

has obayashi's idea for a revival of the godzilla series, "a space godzilla", been mentioned? godzilla is dying of diabetes! i guess it's gestational diabetes? because she's also pregnant, and through psychic transmissions we learn that her name is rozan, and she is an alien from the planet godzilla. rozan is turned into a rocket to send her and her baby, lilin, back to the planet godzilla, where she is reunited with her husband, kunin. together, they fight to defeat an invasion of the planet godzilla by the evil sunerians.

holy shit WHAT

*reads "a space godzilla" wiki furiously*

thanks matttkkkk this rocking horsemen looks amazing...

oh yeah - https://archive.org/details/the.-rocking.-horsemen.-1992.1080p.-blu-ray.x-264.-aac-yts.-mx

oh hell yeah

ok me being me i found out obayashi was did a _lot_ of tv commercials and i had to see if i could find some of them

and sure enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqTGxfWRiHU

i like tv commercials in general, personally. the charles bronson ad for "MANDOM" is amazing. peak "marketing of masculinity".

oh my GOD I cannot believe that obayashi directed the freaking MANDOM commercial!

and, uh, in case you haven't heard the full mandom OST (lol) before...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFTNGlqklFQ

https://www.discogs.com/release/9586064-Minoru-Muraoka-Tadao-Sawai-Shakuhachi-Koto-Mandom

wow, this is some peak schlock. kinda gives me the vibe of GST's classic "New 3D Bossa Simulation" tho. all those Japanese golf simulators with chiptune bossa tracks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHCSSE5BM1w

The commercials and about a dozen other Obayashi films (more than half, new to my pretty-extensive collection) are on archive.org like the link above.

Obayashi started out doing experimental shorts, when he moved to commercials a lot of his colleagues disapproved but he was like "this is just what we were doing anyway but better paid".