An acrylic painting on wood panel, titled 'House - Part 1', of a girl with black rose tattoos wearing a Japanese school uniform and a white robe draped over her. A white cat runs by her feet with a lit roman candle wrapped in its tail.

House (Part 1)

(1977, Nobuhiko Obayashi)

Wow, I don’t even know where to begin with this movie so I decided to do 3 paintings on it! I’ll just say this is the funniest movie I’ve ever seen but let’s talk about the humor in part 2. For part 1 let me just say that I am enamoured with the cinematography. I feel like only the masters could film something like this where “cheeseball” is on the tip of my tongue to describe it but all I can say is “geniussssssss”. You just have to see it to understand, no clip is going to give it justice. Find HOUSE, get some friends together and just enjoy. SERIOUSLY.


A screenshot from the Japanese film 'House' of a young woman named Gorgeous (played by Kimiko Ikegami) against a bright orange background. An animated gif of a scene from Japanese film 'House' showing the face of Gorgeous break off to reveal fire underneathe. A screenshot of Gorgeous with superimposed images of butterflies. From the Japanese film 'House'.

© 1977 - Toho