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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like House, it turns domestic unease into gleefully artificial, genre-hopping delirium, using abrupt musical flights, cartoonish invention, and a macabre comic tone rather than conventional horror realism.
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Why this pick
Its candy-coloured pop-musical surface and sisterly young-women ensemble conceal a surreal, increasingly feral fairy-tale logic—an off-kilter tonal ride close to House’s playful menace.
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Why this pick
This shares House’s handmade visual anarchy, mischievous female energy, and delight in smashing narrative rules. Its kaleidoscopic editing and changing film textures make rebellion feel like a feverish collage.
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Why this pick
For House’s love of horror as visual play: this is a hypnotic, retro-styled sensory puzzle built from bold colour, graphic cuts, dream logic, and deliberately unreal spaces.
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Why this pick
Its meticulously stylised, candy-bright retro aesthetic and arch, feminine supernatural melodrama echo House’s pleasure in beauty, artifice, and horror that is funny precisely because it is so heightened.
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01 / THE STORY
In Japan, a young girl nicknamed Gorgeous (Kimiko Ikegami), so called for her beauty, has plans for a summer vacation with her father (Saho Sasazawa) who had been in Italy scoring film music. Her father returns home and surprises Gorgeous by announcing she has a new stepmother, Ryoko Ema (Haruko Wanibuchi). This upsets Gorgeous as her mother had died eight years earlier. Gorgeous goes to her bedroom and writes a letter to her aunt asking if she could come visit her this summer instead. Gorgeous' aunt replies and allows her to come visit. Gorgeous invites her six friends, Prof (Ai Matsubara) who is highly academic and is very good at problem solving, Melody (Eriko Tanaka) who has an affinity for music, Kung Fu (Miki Jinbo) who is very athletic and is especially good at kung fu, Mac (Mieko Sato) who is highly gluttonous and loves anything edible, Sweet (Masayo Miyako) who is bubbly and gentle and Fantasy (Kumiko Ohba) who is a constant daydreamer to come along with her. On arriving at the aunt's house, the girls are greeted by Gorgeous' aunt (Yōko Minamida) to whom they present a watermelon.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
オシャレ
ファンタ
ガリ
クンフー
マツク
スウィート
メロディー
東郷圭介先生
