The Happiness of the Katakuris

カタクリ家の幸福 (original)

6.9

/10

1h 53m 18+Drama Comedy Horror Musical

From Takashi Miike, the prolific director of such shocking hits including Audition and Ichi the Killer comes “The Sound of Music meets Dawn of the Dead”! The Katakuri family run a peaceful country inn at the foot of Mount Fuji. A little more peaceful than anticipated, their only visitors arrive in a series of suicides, murders, and inexplicable deaths. In order not to ruin their reputation, the Katakuris decide to bury the bodies, but will the coverups come back to haunt them... The Happiness of the Katakuris combines scenes of grotesque stop motion animation, surreal musical numbers, and zombies to make one the finest horror-comedies ever made.

Spoken language: ja

Starring Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda, Naomi Nishida, Kiyoshiro Imawano, Tetsurō Tamba, Naoto Takenaka, Tamaki Miyazaki, Takashi Matsuzaki, Yoshiki Arizono

Watch "The Happiness of the Katakuris" from streaming services Tubi TV, Apple TV+ (itunes), Youtube released in 2002. It's a drama and comedy movie, and has a rating of 6.9 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.