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The Happiness of the Katakuris

The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)

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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 9

If nothing else, Happiness of the Katakuris scores points for its delirious, over-the-top originality.

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Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 4

If nothing else, Happiness of the Katakuris scores points for its delirious, over-the-top originality.

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Average Rating: 3.9/5
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One of an amazing seven features directed in 2001 by Japan's prolific shock auteur Takashi Miike, The Happiness of the Katakuris is a gleefully morbid musical comedy about a family of oddballs who open an inn in the mountains. Unfortunately, through no fault of their own, none of their guests leave their rooms alive. In order to protect their business, the family resorts to burying the corpses in the backyard, but this only leads to a zombie problem. Meanwhile, the daughter falls in love with

Feb 25, 2003

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All Critics (34) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (9) | DVD (7)

It's weirdly -- and often wonderfully -- entertaining.

January 17, 2003
Seattle Times
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By the second hour, Miike's story fails to punctuate its powerful setup, and the work, much like the family itself, ends up a tangled mess.

December 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
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There are so many moments in Happiness of the Katakuris that beg us to walk out on the movie, it's hard to pick just one.

November 27, 2002 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comment (1)
Denver Post
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A kind of strange, existentialist comedy.

October 25, 2002 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
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It's a ball when it works, which is why fans of Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, Francois Ozon's 8 Women, and other darkly inspired, genre-bending musical fusions must introduce themselves to the Katakuris.

October 25, 2002 Full Review Source: Boston Globe
Boston Globe
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None of this is nearly as hilarious as surely it was meant to be.

October 17, 2002 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment (1)
Los Angeles Times
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Love it or hate it, such a feat of highly demented cinematic imagination simply must be seen.

January 2, 2009 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
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The Katakuris may not be your typical innkeepers, but the family that sings together and buries dead bodies together, stays together...this is hilarious, macabre, and entertaining.

August 7, 2003 Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com

It's shot and acted in a way that's hastily, amateurishly theatrical, through digital photography that tries to look beautiful but just plain can't.

July 6, 2003

Happiness of the Katakuris is probably the film best equipped to fill that black-camp-karaoke-musical-horror-claymé-domestic-dramedy void in your DVD library.

April 22, 2003 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

...for all the black humor of this deliriously bizarre fantasy Happiness is a warmhearted film about sacrifice, support and four generations of family togetherness in face of mounting corpses.

January 16, 2003 Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

It's freakishly interesting and even outright hilarious at times, but, then again, so are most funerals.

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment (1)
Austin Chronicle

Audience Reviews for The Happiness of the Katakuris

It?s like the Sound of Music with Zombies, murders, a volcano and general madness. It?s fantastic, Takeshi Miike is a genius!
September 25, 2009
SirPant

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I admit I haven't seen many musicals & I don't intend to but this one is right up there along with Hedwing and the Angry Inch as my favourite musicals of all time, My first Takashi Miike (Audition) was really disappointing so it took me so long to see this & Gozu but these two made me want to see his other movies
April 10, 2009
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Foreign Titles

  • The Happiness of the Katakuris (Katakuri-ke no kofuku) (DE)
  • The Happiness of the Katakuris (Katakuri-ke no kofuku) (CA)
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