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 more complicated when their second guest a famous sumo ringer dies while having sex with his matress and the Katakuri's problems are just beginning... Filled with surreal musical numbers disturbed animated characters killer zombies and an array of gruesome deaths this delirious b
Takashi Miike's "Happiness of the Katakuris" is the kind of film you stumble upon on late night television and become instantly fixated. That is how I found it. A remake of the 1998 Korean film "The Quiet Family", "Katakuris" makes quite an impression as an all out assault on one's sanity. Miike combines surrealist stop-motion animation, stunning full-on musical numbers, and absurdist plot twists to tell the story of a family whose simple life at an unpopular mountain lodge gets turned upside down when their first clients all turn up dead. The real genius is in the reaction and resolutions they find to keep attractaing business authorities. I cannot recommend this film highly enough. If you've got a mind for something a little different, perhaps give this a pass, but, if you're in the mood for something that is completely mental this is the one for you!
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