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 was a Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist from Sapporo, Hokkaido and a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA). He was a graduate of the Graphic Design department of the Musashino Art Univer ...

. The film stars Sabu (credited as Hiroki Tanaka) as a

yakuza , also known as , are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The Japanese police and media, by request of the police, call them , while the ''yakuza'' call themselves . The English equivalent for the ter ...

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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* 1991 films Films directed by Katsuhiro Otomo Films set in apartment buildings Yakuza films 1990s Japanese films {{1990s-Japan-film-stub