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Availability: Out Of Print - This title is currently unavailable and/or out of print. Other versions may still be available; and will be listed on the right side of your screen. Director: Takashi Miike Producer: Hirotsugu Yoshida Released: 2001 [Japan] Genre: Horror     Sub-Genre: Comedy Keywords:  Ambition || Dark Comedy || Death / Dying || Family / Siblings || Hotel || Japan / Japanese || Musical || Psychic / Telepathy / Telekinesis || Suicide

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Plot:	After a family opens a lodge in a remote mountain town, they find that all their guests keep dying--and they take on the responsibility of hiding all the bodies, not wanting any bad publicity. However, their determination might just make things work...
Overview:	Miike Takashi's "The Happiness of the Katakuris" is a quirky, black comedy, combining musical, comedy and horror genres to produce a uniquely Japanese twist to a cross between "Shallow Grave" and "The Sound of Music". The plot centres around a fairly typical dysfunctional family and their shared dream of opening a guest house in the country. Despite all their best efforts, the guest house has the unfortunate habit of attracting guests who all turn up dead in the morning. The Katakuris, just regular folks, do their utmost to make a success by burying the guests out the back the grove behind the house, with hilarious results. This is one film that has created its own genre and will have you cheering for the Katakuris as they fight the odds and the bodies.
Cast:	Kiyoshiro Imawano  ||  Keiko Matsuzaka  ||  Naomi Nishida  ||  Kenji Sawada  ||  Shinji Takeda  ||  Naoto Takenaka  ||  Tetsuro Tamba (Click any actor to search for more of their movies!)
Languages:	Japanese (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround)
Subtitles:	ENGLISH
Distributor:	Chimera/Ventura  [A USA-Based Distributor]
Rating:	IIA - "Some Content May Be Inappropriate For Children" (roughly equal to an MPPA rating of "PG-13") Films rated Category IIA may contain mild violence such as martial arts, mild nudity that is not sexually oriented, mild explicit language and some mild adult situations.
Features:	Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Director's Audio Commentary Interviews "Making Of" Documentary (61 min.) TV Spots Trailers