Year: 2005
Duration: 50'
Koji
confesses to his lover that his wife isn't
a human being anymore and asks her to come to his house to see if what
he has
told her is just an illusion. Is it all in his head or has his wife,
who has taken
refuge in the attic, really turned into a bug? And inside
Koji's house, what's
real and what isn't? Who is going crazy: Koji or his wife,
who is distraught by
the man's enraged suspicion that she might be betraying him? House
of Bugs is the first episode of Horror
Theater, a series of 6 films inspired by the mangas of Umezu
Kazuo, a
recognized pioneer of Japanese horror comics. The author of stories populated by
terrifying and grotesque
characters who move along the borderline between reality and
imagination, Umezu
has dedicated himself to horror-mangas for over 40 years, and his
popularity is
still intact. Besides Kurosawa, other directors of the project include
Ito
Tadashi, Iguchi Noboru,
Biography
film director
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Kobe, Japan, 1955) studied at Rikkyo Daigaku and then worked as assistant, director of short films in 8mm, and early productions for the video market. In 1997 his metaphysical thriller Cure gave him his first success at the Tokyo International Film Festival. His later works, most of which have participated at the world’s top festivals, have made him one of the new authors of Japanese cinema. His short film Soul Dancing was presented in 2004 at the Torino Film Festival, where he returned the following year with Loft. In 2008, Tokyo Sonata, starring Koji Yakusho, won the Jury Prize in Un certain regard at the Cannes Film Festival, a section he returned to in 2015 with Journey to the Shore, which won Best Director.
FILMOGRAFIA
Suito Homu (Sweet Home, 1989), Katte ni shiyagare! Gyakuten keikaku (1996), Hebi no michi (Serpent’s Path, 1997), Ningen gokaku (License to Live, 1998), Kumo no hitomi (Eyes of the Spider, 1998), Karisuma (Charisma, 1999), Oinaru genei (Barren Illusions, 1999), Kaïro (Pulse, 2001), Akarui mirai (Bright Future, 2003), Dopperugenga (Doppelganger, 2003), Ghost Cop (2004), Shi no otome (Loft, 2005), Sakebi (Castigo, 2006), Riaru: Kanzen naru kubinagaryû no hi (Real, 2012), Sebunsu kôdo (Seventh Code, 2013), Kurip (Creepy, 2016).