The Happiness of the Katakuris

Feb 23, 2002

1h 53m

★ 6.9

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Horror

Production Companies

Shochiku

dentsu

Eisei Gekijo

Ganmo

Gentosha

Little Garage

MBS

Sedic International

Spike K.K.

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Cast

Masao Katakuri

Kenji Sawada

Terue Katakuri

Keiko Matsuzaka

Masayuki Katakuri

Shinji Takeda

Shizue Katakuri

Naomi Nishida

Richard Sagawa

Kiyoshiro Imawano

Granpa Jinpei Katakuri

Tetsuro Tamba

TV Reporter / Singer

Naoto Takenaka

Yurie Katakuri

Tamaki Miyazaki

Utanomi

Takashi Matsuzaki

Father of the Poor Family

Yoshiki Arizono

Utanomi's Girlfriend

Chihiro Asakawa

Kudou

Kenichi Endo

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