Sweet Home (film)

Sweet Home
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Produced by Juzo Itami
Written by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring Nobuko Miyamoto
Shingo Yamashiro
Nokko
Fukumi Kuroda
Ichiro Furutachi
Music by Masaya Matsuura
Cinematography Yonezo Maeda
Edited by Akira Suzuki
Production
company
Itami Productions
Distributed by Toho
Release dates
  • January 21, 1989 (1989-01-21) (Japan)
Running time
101 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Sweet Home (スウィートホーム Suwīto hōmu) is a 1989 Japanese horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and produced by Juzo Itami. It was released together with a video game of the same title.

Plot

A small film crew visits the old, abandoned mansion of famous artist Ichirō Mamiya, who left several precious frescos inside his house. The team wants to restore and publish the paintings and film a documentary about Mamiya and his arts. The team includes Kazuo (Shingo Yamashiro), his daughter Emi (Nokko), producer Akiko (Nobuko Miyamoto), photographer Taguchi (Ichiro Furutachi) and art restorer Asuka (Fukumi Kuroda). After they enter the mansion, paranormal events betray the presence of a poltergeist. Soon, Asuka is possessed by the infuriated ghost of Lady Mamiya, Ichirō's wife. The team discovers a makeshift grave where a toddler is buried. The boy is Ichirō and Lady Mamiya's son, who fell into the house's incinerator one day and burned alive. Since then, Lady Mamiya's ghost haunts the mansion, killing any trespassers. In the end, only Kazuo, Emi, and Akiko survive, by reuniting Mamiya with her beloved son, and so giving them peace. When Kazuo, Emi, and Akiko leave the mansion, it begins to collapse.

Cast

Reception

Tom Mes of Midnight Eye noted that the script echoed Robert Wise's The Haunting. He said, "Despite its unsurprising plotting, Sweet Home is action-packed, thrill-packed and effects-packed, resulting in a more than entertaining haunted house ride."[1]

Video game

Along with the film release, a role-playing video game with the same title produced by Juzo Itami and published by Capcom was also released in 1989. According to the game's director, Tokuro Fujiwara, he was able to view the film and use what he wanted to as part of the game, and that he "carefully considered how to go about bringing elements from the movie to the game screen". In turn, the Sweet Home video game became the basis for the Resident Evil franchise.[2]

References

  1. Tom Mes (31 October 2001). "Midnight Eye review: Sweet Home". Midnight Eye.
  2. "「魔界村」を創った男:藤原得郎氏インタビューについて." (Archive) – A blog post by Fuunoshin on the website NESGBGG which contains excerpts of various video game interviews, including a 2009 interview of Tokuro Fujiwara. Glitterberri's unofficial translation of the Fujiwara interview(english) (Archive)

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