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The Happiness of the Katakuris

Katakuri-ke no kôfuku (The Happiness of the Katakuris)

2001

Takashi Miike

Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda, Yoshiyuki Morishita ...

6.2

1,466

Musical. Thriller. Comedy. Horror The Katakuri family has just opened their guesthouse in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.

	Media	Author	Review
		Nick Dawson Empire	"The director shocks us most by the charmingly shambolic way in which he embraces good-old family values (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Dave Kehr The New York Times	"You would almost be tempted to smile at times, albeit weakly, if it weren't for Mr. Miike's habit of pounding home every joke with exaggerated reaction shots"
		David Rooney Variety	"This unclassifiable hybrid of black comedy and horror movie (...) may not be entirely coherent but should nonetheless tickle late-night fest crowds and other fans of Japanese esoteria."
		Scott Tobias AV Club	"A joyously demented musical-comedy built on a macabre foundation, like 'The Sound Of Music' with a kickline of corpses."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A curious, indigestible meal of a film (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Ed Gonzalez Slant	"Though uneven, this genre-defying creation’s spectacle is still never less than awesome to behold (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

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