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Availability: Special Order - We do not normally keep stock of this title onhand. Once you order it, we will order it from our supplier and ship it out to you. We do not bill you for Special Order items until they ship. You cannot cancel Special Order items after purchase. 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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Avg. Rating:	4.3 / 5 (based on 9 ratings). What did you think of it?
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!)
Running Time:	113 mins. (approx.)
Languages:	Japanese (2.0 - Stereo)
Subtitles:	ENGLISH
Distributor:	Eastern Star  [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 Stereo Director's Audio Commentary Interviews "Making Of" Documentary Animating The Katakuris Trailers