The Happiness of the Katakuris (Blu-ray + DVD)
Love. Music. Horror. Volcanos. Cinema was never meant to be like this!
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 16, 2015
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Arrow Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Kenji Sawada & Naomi Nishida | |
| Performer: | Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda & Naoto Takenaka | |
| Directed by | Takashi Miike | |
| Screenplay by | Kikumi Yamagishi | |
| Cinematography by | Hideo Yamamoto | |
| Produced by | Hirotsugu Yoshida |
Entertainment Reviews:
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82%
Rating: 2/5 --
None of this is nearly as hilarious as surely it was meant to be.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/4 --
It's weirdly -- and often wonderfully -- entertaining.
Seattle Times
Rating: B+ --
...for all the black humor of this deliriously bizarre fantasy Happiness is a warmhearted film about sacrifice, support and four generations of family togetherness in face of mounting corpses.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The Katakuris may not be your typical innkeepers, but the family that sings together and buries dead bodies together, stays together...this is hilarious, macabre, and entertaining.
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TheMovieChicks.com
Rating: 4/4 --
Love it or hate it, such a feat of highly demented cinematic imagination simply must be seen.
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TheMovieReport.com
Rating: C- --
Palatable in small doses, "The Happiness of the Katakuris" just doesn't have enough to be wholly satisfying to cult film fans. This surreal horror-comedy tries very hard, but ultimately grates on your nerves.
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Movie Chambers
Rating: 3/4 --
It's a ball when it works, which is why fans of Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, Francois Ozon's 8 Women, and other darkly inspired, genre-bending musical fusions must introduce themselves to the Katakuris.
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Boston Globe
Description by OLDIES.com:
From Takashi Miike, the prolific director of such shocking hits including Audition and Ichi the Killer comes "The Sound of Music meets Dawn of the Dead"!
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