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  1. Due to his breakthrough film Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999), distributors were quick to paint Miike as the new ‘king of extreme’, despite only having produced two real horror films by the time of The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike, 2001). As a self-proclaimed ‘director for hire’, it is not the choice of projects or genres that define him as a director, but rather his ...

  2. The Happiness of the Katakuris (カタクリ家の幸福, Katakuri-ke no Kōfuku) is a 2001 Japanese musical comedy horror film directed by Takashi Miike, with screenplay by Kikumi Yamagishi. It is loosely based on the South Korean film The Quiet Family. The film is a surreal horror-comedy in the farce tradition, which includes claymation ...

  3. The Happiness of the Katakuris. is not an original film, the premise is a rough remake of Kim Jee-woon’s Choyonghan kajok (The Quiet Family), released three years before. It starred a pre-fame Min-sik Choi (Oldeuboi [Oldboy] Chan-wook Park, 2003). It is a straight tale, simply told, with a much harder tone than . Katakuris, and no musical ...

  4. A pitch black comedy ideally suited for midnight movie viewings, The Happiness of the Katakuris (Katakuri-ke no kôfuku) is a loving and utterly insane salute to Japanese pop kitsch, zombie horror romps, and avant-garde animation, not to mention a loose remake of the 1998 Korean film The Quiet Family. If that sounds like a bizarre stew, well ...

  5. Apr 4, 2002 · Addeddate 2019-07-04 06:36:36 Highest-restriction age-restricted Identifier office-of-film-and-literature-classification_200374

  6. Mar 16, 2012 · Katakuris is a movie fully aware of its own weird nature, and that self-awareness contributes to the fun. One scene in particular (to share the details would spoil a significant moment) threatens to descend into bathos and schmaltz undercuts itself hilariously without entirely collapsing the emotional import of the sequence. [2]

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  8. The Happiness of the Katakuris: Directed by Takashi Miike. With Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda, Naomi Nishida. A family moves to the country to run a rustic mountain inn when, to their horror, the customers begin befalling sudden and unlikely fates.

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