The films of Nobuhiko Obayashi are a particularly satisfying and surprising niche in Japanese cinema. Obayashi had an early hit with young audiences in 1977 with the bizarre and breathlessly original House, a haunted house film with a cast of rambunctious and sensitive teenagers and giddying optical effects. Obayashi’s films dance across a rich spectrum of emotion — his heightened, peppy, and earnest sensibilities grants him the ability to dip into surreal fantasy and nimbly step between comic and melancholic tones. Hosoda’s film was not an immediate box office hit, but thanks to an English dub and Hosoda’s continued success as a director, it continued to find new audiences. This release is a brand new 4K restoration straight from the camera negative, with remastered Japanese audio tracks and improved English subtitles.