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The Happiness of the Katakuris(Movie, 2001)

Original title: "カタクリ家の幸福" (Japanese/JA)
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| 1h 53min | Genres: Comedy, Drama, Horror
The Happiness of the KatakurisRating: 3.5/5 (with 8686 votes)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (カタクリ家の幸福, Katakuri-ke no Kōfuku) is a 2001 Japanese musical comedy horror film directed by Takashi Miike, with screenplay by Kikumi Yamagishi. It is loosely based on the South Korean film The Quiet Family. The film is a surreal horror-comedy in the farce tradition, which includes claymation sequences, musical and dance numbers, a karaoke-style sing-along scene and dream sequences. The film won a Special Jury Prize for its director at the 2004 Gérardmer Film Festival and has received generally positive reviews from critics. ()
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About The Happiness of the Katakuris

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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Additional Information

Production country: Japan
Original language: Japanese (JA)
Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)
Translated into 16 languages: Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 10/31/2001 (World premiere: 02/23/2002)
Director: Takashi Miike
Film Editor: Yasushi Shimamura
Director of Photography: Hideo Yamamoto
Composer: Kōji Endō
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Katakuri-ke no kôfuku"

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