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World Apartment Horror
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is a 1991 Japanese comedy horror film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, with a screenplay by Otomo and Keiko Nobumoto from a story by Satoshi Kon.Gerow, Aaron. "Recognizing 'Others' in a New Japanese Cinema." January 2002. Japan Foundation Newsletter, The. [http://www.jpf.go.jp/j/publish/periodic/jfn/pdf/jfn29_2.pdf] The film stars Sabu (credited as Hiroki Tanaka) as a yakuza henchman who encounters the language barrier and evil spirits in his attempts to evict a Tokyo apartment full of foreigners.
Sabu received the Best New Actor Award at the Yokohama Film Festival in 1992. A manga adaptation by Kon was published by Kodansha, under the same title, on August 1, 1991.
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