FilmRComedy Horror Survival Splatter & Gore

The Happiness of the Katakuris2002

Name: The Happiness of the Katakuris
Genre: Comedy Horror, Survival, Splatter & Gore
Released: 2002-02-23
Rating: 6.7

“Love. Music. Horror. Volcanos. Cinema was never meant to be like this!”

Directed by Takashi Miike

6.7

Crypt Score

Blended from 3 sources

IMDb 6.9Metacritic 60TMDB 6.9

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Year

2002

Runtime

113 min

Box Office

Budget

$1,500,000

🏆 1 win & 1 nomination

The premise

The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.

Horror Vault's take

The Katakuri family pins their hopes on a remote mountain guest house, only for their dreams to unravel in spectacularly grim fashion when guests keep turning up dead under increasingly outrageous circumstances. Rather than call the authorities, the family opts for increasingly creative — and increasingly desperate — solutions that test every bond they share. Director Takashi Miike injects the mayhem with musical numbers, stop-motion interludes, and gleeful bad taste that defy easy categorisation. It is equal parts family melodrama and gleefully unhinged horror comedy.

Content: Dark Comedy Depictions Of Suicide And Death, Sexual Content Involving An Underage Character Referenced In Context, Crude And Gross-Out Humour, Brief Surreal Violence