The Happiness of the Katakuris
(Katakuri-ke No kôfuku)
113 minutes,
Japan (2001), 15
Cult Japanese director Takashi Miike subverts genre cinema with this hilariously entertaining Frankenstein's monster mash of horror movie and musical
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The Happiness of the Katakuris: What do karaoke, zombies, claymation and bizarre black humour have in common? Well, they're all incongruous ingredients in Japanese director Takashi Miike's The Happiness Of The Katakuris, a horror-musical-comedy-melodrama about a family who take over a guesthouse in the mountains with disastrous results. Every time a guest stays, they end up dead by dawn...
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