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The Happiness of the Katakuris

2002 · 113 min

A gleefully bizarre musical horror-comedy that keeps you laughing and squirming as it veers from claymation to karaoke to corpse-burying.

Directed by: Takashi Miike
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Starring: Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda

Tagline: Love. Music. Horror. Volcanos. Cinema was never meant to be like this!
Overview: The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house 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.

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Directed by: Takashi Miike
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Starring: Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda

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Tone: absurdstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
campystrength 2 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: death
family
grief
isolation
survival
Places: countryside
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: musical
ensemble
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	3
Horror	4
Humour	8
Realism	3
Romance	3
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	5

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