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The thing about House is that it's actually really good, and the overall narrative makes sense and has some interesting things to say about the really stark generation gap in Japan at the time. On one side you had an older generation scarred by the horrors of war, and on the other you had a youth culture that had absolutely no concept of the wartime experience at all, and only saw it in terms of romantic fairy tales if it thought about it at all. Nobuhiko Obayashi saw an older generation so warped by its past traumas that it was consuming (literally in the movie, via a piano among other things) a younger generation that regarded its elders' defining experiences with total incomprehension. House just goes about telling that story in a completely hambananas way (including turning that dude into actual bananas.) It intentionally broke every written and unwritten rule of Japanese cinema of the time, and it owns. Magic Lizard is more like a flaming 55 gallon drum of pig poo poo with some Roman candles buried in it that go off intermittently and give off plumes of dizzying fumes.
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