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Directed by | Katsuhiro Otomo |
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Cinematography | Noboru Shinoda |
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Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
World Apartment Horror (ワールド・アパートメント・ホラー? Wārudo apātomento horā) is a 1991 horror comedy film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, with a screenplay by Otomo and Keiko Nobumoto from a story by Satoshi Kon. 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.
A manga adaptation created by Kon was published by Kodansha, under the same title, on August 1, 1991.