The Happiness of the Katakuris
2001 · Movie · R · 113 min · ★ 6.9 · 65% critics
A family opens a remote mountain guest house hoping for a fresh start, but their first visitors die in shocking ways. Desperate to protect their new business, they scramble to cover up what happened, only for the situation to spiral into increasingly strange, darkly comic chaos.
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Details
- Original title
- カタクリ家の幸福
- Years
- 2001
- Release date
- 2002-02-23
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Critic score
- 65/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 (223 votes)
About
If you enjoy off-the-wall, darkly funny musicals where tragedy meets karaoke-style chaos, this could click, especially if you like the oddball edge of Audition or Gozu; Not for you if you want straightforward horror or consistent realism.
Pros: wildly unpredictable tone; catchy musical bursts; inventive claymation detours | Cons: uneven pacing; randomness overwhelms story; some disturbing sexual content
Themes
- suicide
- mountain
- musical
- psychotronic
Cast & crew
Kenji Sawada
as Masao Katakuri
Keiko Matsuzaka
as Terue Katakuri
Shinji Takeda
as Masayuki Katakuri
Naomi Nishida
as Shizue Katakuri
Kiyoshiro Imawano
as Richard Sagawa
Tetsuro Tamba
as Granpa Jinpei Katakuri
Naoto Takenaka
as TV Reporter / Singer
- TM
Tamaki Miyazaki
as Yurie Katakuri
- TM
Takashi Matsuzaki
as Utanomi
Yoshiki Arizono
as Father of the Poor Family
Directed by Takashi Miike