Talk:House (1977 film)

Plot summary
Just watched the German release of this movie and found the plot summary here to be different in a number of ways: Not sure if these differences are due to the English translation or what. Can any Japanese speaker who's seen it verify the plot summary? TheJazzDalek (talk) 01:27, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Her father is engaged, not just dating. And their annual trip isn't cancelled, he's bringing his fiancée along with them.
 * Oshare wasn't invited to visit her aunt, she wrote to the aunt (who she hadn't had any contact with her in 8-10 years), basically inviting herself to come for a visit.
 * The aunt isn't a witch. She's died but her body has remained somewhat animated due to her desire to wed her fiancée, who was killed during WWII.
 * While the final friend, Fanta, isn't shown being killed, her actual fate is never shown or indicated.
 * There is no letter to the father saying she plans to stay permanently at her aunt's, and the father's fiancée had indicated at the beginning of the film that she planned to follow Oshare to her aunt's in an attempt to reconcile with her.
 * When her father's fiancée arrives, the possessed Oshare and/or Snowball the cat causes the fiancée to spontaneously combust.
 * Hello last year. I've watched the criterion release with updated subtitles. The father introduces the woman as Gorgeous' new mother so fiancée seems fine. The final combustion scene isn't really clear as it seems to make her erupt into flames but she doesn't react to it at all so it could be just foreshadowing or something. Everything else I hope is cleared up in the new plot summary I wrote up. 207.236.94.138 (talk) 12:09, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Blu ray cover
I've removed the blu-ray cover as it fails WP:NFCI, which states "Cover art: Cover art from various items, for visual identification only in the context of critical commentary of that item (not for identification without critical commentary)". There is no real reason to show the image on the cover because we don't discuss the cover itself, and seeing it does not help the user understand it anymore. Andrzejbanas (talk) 01:27, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Would the description of the Criterion Collection release and its contents not serve as an adequate commentary to coincide with the visually-identifiable image of Criterion's cover art for the release? For contrast, the lede section of the article doesn't discuss the film's theatrical release poster. – Matthew  - (talk) 04:25, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Probably not, the poster I believe is acceptable on it's grounds in the details that "The image is placed in the infobox at the top of the article discussing the work, to show the primary visual image associated with the work, and to help the user quickly identify the work, product or service and know they have found what they are looking for. Use for this purpose does not compete with the purposes of the original artwork, namely the creator providing graphic design services, and in turn the marketing of the promoted item." In other words, it's a film that was released theatrically, here's the theatrical poster to identify it. But although I dig the artwork on the criterion one, the article is about the film, not the blu-ray release, and it's a little biased to include it, but not the Masters of Cinema release for example. If the film was released directly to home video, then we'd probably swap the poster for the DVD cover, but that would be the case for a film like Maneater, not House. If you'd like a third opinion, we can re-add the image for now and we can bring the image up for deletion and see what others say. I'm totally good with that. :) Andrzejbanas (talk) 17:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Ay, fair enough. I think it'd be a helpful secondary source because I think most people who know this movie think of that image of the cat with the big sharp-toothed mouth and all. I gotta say it's heckin' nice to be having a civil discussion on this website for once. – Matthew  - (talk) 17:16, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Ditto! :) I agree the cat image is common, but film infoboxes are a bit weird too, because they generally want the original theatrical poster, opposed to...I don't know, video game articles use their English-language covers. Which doesn't always make sense to me either. I'm currently doing some similar discussions on having posters for re-releases of some other Toho films. It can be found here, where the American posters are added for several film in the Godzilla series. Kind of waiting to see the result of these images here. One wasn't contested and deleted, but the others are ongoing currently. So we could put the House one up for comment too, but I'm equally fine just waiting to see what the conclusion and legality is of having these extra posters.Andrzejbanas (talk) 17:33, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * So should we put the image up for comment or like... what are we waiting for exactly? – Matthew  - (talk) 20:50, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh oops. Yeah we can! Was just waiting to see what you figured you'd want to wait for. The results of the deletion on the other Toho things, which would probably give us a final answer. Or just put it up and put into an "image up for deletion" to see what the general consensus/rules are for these kinds of things. Andrzejbanas (talk) 21:06, 14 February 2017 (UTC)


 * If this image was listed at WP:FfD, I would vote to delete it. The blu-ray cover's fair use rationale says its use is for the infobox, which is not true. The blu-ray cover fails WP:NFCC in that the of film poster already is used in the article for means of identification and fails WP:NFCC because there is no commentary about the cover thereby doing nothing to increase the reader's understanding of the film and its exclusion is not detrimental to the understanding of the film. Aspects (talk) 05:25, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Cat name
In the version of the film I've seen (the Criterion blu ray and dvd) the cat is definately named Blanche. I suggest we stick with that unless you have some other source. Andrzejbanas (talk) 05:08, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * As per a discussion on my talk page, I would suggest if you want to include the original Japanese characters names, perhaps lay it out as the article on Audition has. That way, there is no confusion and its clarified. Andrzejbanas (talk) 03:51, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Missing Information
After reading this article I noticed that it is missing some important information on the film. Things like the film's Score/Soundtrack, Themes, Influences, and Legacy are all missing from this article. I can get started on adding some of this when I find reliable information.--Paleface Jack (talk) 17:00, 8 April 2021 (UTC)