The Happiness of the Katakuris DVD cover

The Happiness of the Katakuris (Japanese: Katakuri-ke no kōfuku) is a 2001 film directed by Takashi Miike, with screenplay by Kikumi Yamagishi. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Takashi Miike Takashi Miike (三池崇史 Miike Takashi - MEE-ee-keh tak-ASH-ee) (born August 24, 1960 in Osaka, Japan) is a highly prolific Japanese filmmaker, having directed over sixty theatrical, video and television productions since his debut in 1991. ...

The film is a surreal horror-comedy, which includes claymation sequences, musical and dance numbers, a karaoke-style sing-along scene, dream sequences, and Hitchcockian symbolism. It is a cross between Psycho, The Sound of Music, and Dawn of the Dead, with Michael Jackson's music video Thriller thrown in for good measure. The term Claymation is a registered trademark created by Will Vinton Studios to describe their clay animated movies. ... A Karaoke machine Karaoke (Japanese: カラオケ, from 空 kara, empty, and オーケストラ ōkesutora, orchestra) is a form of entertainment where an amateur singer accompanies recorded music. ... This article is about the novel and the movies based on it. ... Julie Andrews as Maria, seeks guidance from the Mother Abbess, played by Peggy Wood, in this scene from the 1965 film version. ... Dawn of the Dead may refer to one of the following films: Dawn of the Dead (1978), directed by George Romero Dawn of the Dead (2004), directed by Zack Snyder Categories: Disambiguation ... Michael Jackson in 1987. ... Kylie Minogues video to Spinning Around (2000) A music video (also video clip, promo) is a short film meant to present a visual representation of a popular music song. ... Screenshot - the Thriller video. ...

The Happiness of the Katakuris is based on the Korean film, The Quiet Family, but is by no means merely a Japanese remake; it is a complete re-imagination and re-invention of the original.

The film won a Special Jury Prize for its director at the 2004 Gérardmer Film Festival.

Main cast

• Kenji Sawada — Masao Katakuri
• Keiko Matsuzaka — Terue Katakuri
• Shinji Takeda — Masayuki Katakuri
• Naomi Nishida — Shizue Katakuri
• Kiyoshiro Imawano — Richâdo Sagawa
• Tetsuro Tamba — Ojîsan Jinpei Katakuri
• Naoto Takenaka — television reporter
• Tamaki Miyazaki — Yurie Katakuri
• Takashi Matsuzaki — Utanômi

Tetsuro Tamba (丹波 哲郎 Tamba Tetsurō, born July 17, 1922 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actor. ...

Plot summary

The Katakuris are a four-generation family of failures (grandfather, father and mother, children, and granddaughter, who narrates the film) who use the father's redundancy pay to buy a guest house in the country. Somehow, each of their guests ends up dead – by suicide, accident, or murder – and once they have made the decision to save their business by burying the bodies and concealing the deaths, they find themselves sucked into a nightmare of lies and fear (not helped by the arrival of the daughter's con-man boyfriend, an escaped murderer with police in hot pursuit, and an erupting volcano).

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External links

• The Happiness of the Katakuris at the Internet Movie Database
• The Happiness of the Katakuris — review for Dual Lens by Davin Lagerroos