The Happiness of the Katakuris is a 2001 film directed by Takashi Miike, with screenplay by Kikumi Yamagishi. It is loosely based on the South Korean film The Quiet Family. The film is a surreal horror-comedy in the farce tradition, which includes claymation sequences, musical and dance numbers, a karaoke-style sing-along scene, and dream sequences. The film won a Special Jury Prize for its director at the 2004 Gérardmer Film Festival. The Katakuris are a four-generation family of failures: patriarch Masao Katakuri , his wife Terue , his father Jinpei , his formerly criminal son... Masayuki , his divorced daughter Shizue , her child Yurie , and their dog, Pochi. The family uses the father's redundancy pay to purchase a large old home situated on a former garbage dump near Mount Fuji that they have named the ‘White Lover's Inn'. They have the intention of converting it into a bed & breakfast, since the road running nearby is supposed to be expanded up to the house, which would bring many guests and tourists.
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| Release date: | February 23, 2002 |
| Directed by: | Takashi Miike |
| Runtime: | 113 Minutes |
| Producer: | Hirotsugu Yoshida |
| Screenplay by: | Kikumi Yamagishi |
| Genre: | Comedy, Musical |