Advantages: Surreal masterpiece of unbelievable craziness Disadvantages: See above!!!
"The Hills are alive with the sounds of screaming"
Takashi Miike is an incredibly prolific director, making three or four films a year for more or less the last ten years. Sometimes cinema releases, sometimes straight to DVD and occasionally even TV movies. He is best known for violent, over the top crime action pieces but he does branch out into other genres occasionally. Audition, one of the first Asian horrors to make it to our shores and strike ... ...Ichi the Killer. He also filmed the wonderfully titled 'Multiple Personality Detective Psycho', a film I just have to see just because of that title!
'The Happiness of The Katakuris' is certainly not a conventional horror, neither is it a crime drama, thriller or gangster movie, all things you associate with Miike. So what is it all about then you may ask? I wish there was an easy answer to that but there isn't. HOTK is a film unlike anything you ...
Ailran 02.10.2005
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Advantages: Hilarious characters, great musical numbers Disadvantages: May be too bizarre for some more reserved movie fans
...how you try to describe The Happiness Of The Katakuris, it is simply one of those films you have to see for yourself. I can't think of a single movie that I could possibly compare it to.
You won't understand it, you won't make any sense of it, but you will love it.
The story starts as a the Katakuri family move into their house in the country. Led by the father of the family, they hope to make money by renting the house as a bed & breakfast for ... ...in his room. Cue the first of many bizarre musical numbers. Disturbed by this bad omen, the family decide not to inform the police and bury the corpse behind the house in order not to attract bad publicity. However, as the next customers arrive (a large sumo wrestler and his schoolgirl girlfriend), disaster strikes again.
A pattern emerges and the Katakuris face trial after trial of bizarre customers who seem to come to their b&b to die.
With some ...
Vyse 15.04.2005
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