The Happiness of the Katakuris (Katakuri-ke no kôfuku) - 2001 Japanese Musical Horror
The Happiness of the Katakuris Tagline
The hills are alive with the sound of screaming!
The Happiness of the Katakuris Synopsis
One of the most original and innovative movies of recent years, The Happiness of the Katakuris combines the most unlikely genre elements to create the most highly unpredictable and truly unforgettable movie of all time!
The Katakuris are an average family whose dream is to own a successful country inn. But soon things begin to go wrong and all of their guests begin to drop dead in the most bizarre of circumstances. Desperate to ensure the success of their business, they agree to keep the deaths quiet and resort to burying the bodies in the forest behind the house..
Filled with surreal musical numbers, disturbed animated characters, killer zombies and an array of gruesome deaths, this delirious black comedy has to be seen to be believed.
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The Happiness of the Katakuris Movie Review
This is a truly bizarre movie even by Takashi Miike standards. It's a musical. It's a dark horror. It's animation. Not the usual elements you find combined into a single movie.
The Katakuris' dream is to run a successful country inn, but luck doesn’t seem to be coming their way and the complete lack of customers means the family business may have to stop. When the customers do start arriving the family’s happiness soon ends as their guest begin to die in bizarre and extreme ways. In order to save the family business the Katakuris decide that is best to cover up the deaths by burying the corpses in the forest behind the inn.
Before long the family are entangle in a web of lies trying to explain the disappearances to the police, but the police soon discover what is going on when the corpses emerge from the earth as zombies to perform a musical number. Even with this, death in the family and a volcanic eruption the Katakuris still maintain their happiness!
The Happiness of the Katakuris is more of a farce than a horror movie although there are some creative deaths the horrificness of it is taken away by the singing and dancing. This movie definitely has to be seen to be believed but I think it would have been a much more disturbing experience if it had more gore and some dark horror scenes to make the musical aspect of the movie seem even more bizarre than it was.
Although the concept of the movie is highly original I expected something a little more disturbing from Takashi Miike.
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