The Happiness of the Katakuris
“Love. Music. Horror. Volcanos. Cinema was never meant to be like this!”
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A family opens a mountain guesthouse and discovers that keeping guests alive is an unexpectedly serious business problem. Their increasingly desperate solutions arrive alongside musical numbers and claymation eruptions. Takashi Miike turns hospitality panic into a strange, darkly comic family musical with a remarkably committed cast.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 6/10
- Plot
- 9.5/10
- Effects
- 4.5/10
- Dialogue
- 7.5/10
- Rewatchability
- 8.5/10
“Five-star hospitality. Increasingly complicated checkout procedures.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 72
Synopsis and movie facts
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.
- Released
- 2002
- Directed by
- Takashi Miike
- Running time
- 113 min
- Original title
- カタクリ家の幸福
Starring
- 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
- Tamaki Miyazaki as Yurie Katakuri
Research behind this pick
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- Film reference · themoviedb.org
TMDB identity and credits retrieved on 2026-11-10: The Happiness of the Katakuris (2002), directed by Takashi Miike. The importer rechecks identity, poster, synopsis, release date, runtime, genres and cast against live metadata.
- Review · starburstmagazine.com
Starburst praises the ensemble, dark humour, choreography and surreal claymation, finding the film unusually enjoyable within Miike's varied work. Full review text consulted on 2026-11-10.
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