Miike is also counting on the fact that even if you've seen his other films, they won't help you one whit.
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10/25/02
Happiness of the Katakuris (2002)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:18
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: If nothing else, Happiness of the Katakuris scores points for its delirious, over-the-top originality.
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Best known for his dark splatterfests (AUDITION, ICHI THE KILLER), director Takeshi Miike takes a detour from his usual style with HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS. After losing his job at a department... [More]
Starring: Kenji Sawada, Naomi Nishida, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda
Director: Takashi Miike
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Reviews for Happiness of the Katakuris
Anyone with a weakness for song-and-dance dementia on the level of Forbidden Zone and Cannibal! The Musical will find all this irresistible.
08/20/02
...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.
01/16/03
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.
11/27/02
Top CriticBasically a one joke film, it goes on too long and boredom sets in.
08/18/02
I swear, you’d think the Katakuris were Fraggles. Any kind of situation is prime reason for these people to burst out into a full-blown musical number...
06/24/02
A kind of strange, existentialist comedy.
10/25/02
Top CriticAggressively uneven and frequently humdrum, it also reaches cheerfully ludicrous heights to which few films even aspire.
08/12/02
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.
08/07/03
Love it or hate it, such a feat of highly demented cinematic imagination simply must be seen.
01/02/09
It is enormously entertaining, and it marks a refreshing change of pace for the versatile Miike.
08/16/02
Though uneven, this genre-defying creation's spectacle is still never less than awesome to behold.
08/19/02
Katakuris doesn't disappoint, except in that it provides pretty much exactly what one would expect from a Miike musical.
08/28/02
Anyone who lasts the distance will be treated to some truly absurd sequences.
07/31/02
Hardcore Miike fans may want to catch this uncharacteristically upbeat curiosity; however, everyone will be much happier without the Katakuris.
10/24/02
A sour camp musical that trots out most of the standard signifiers of 'outrageousness.'
08/15/02
Top CriticIt's weirdly -- and often wonderfully -- entertaining.
01/17/03
An amusing scenario, until even Miike seems to lose his taste for the oddly sweet concoction and allows the film to drift aimlessly to a rainbow-hued finale.
10/25/02
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.
12/05/02
Top CriticIt'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.
10/25/02
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