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The Happiness of the Katakuris
MEANRANK
70/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 60, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 82.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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.
Details
- Director
- Takashi Miike
- Writer
- Kikumi Yamagishi
- Based on
- a work by Kim Jee-woon
- Studio
- Shochiku, dentsu, Eisei Gekijo, Ganmo
- Released
- 23 February 2002
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $1.5M
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