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You heard it here first folks.Naturally there is a host of extras included from Arrow. Some archival interviews do however bring them back along with all the principle cast in their own segments to have a short chat about their experiences on this ‘unique beyond unique’ film. You will giggle, sigh, gasp and cry along with the Katakuris and some of you may even join in and sing to the sickly bland J-pop and croon laden easy listening songs that pepper the film. Naturally one of the first topics of conversation is about the director who is well known for violent cinema making what is essentially a comedy. Time to break the monotony of isolation life with The Arrow Comedy Show Sale - now live on Apple TV! This certainly showed how many massive gaps that I have in my collection and gave me a renewed interest to track down some more of his titles. Guest Curator, Elijah Wood: "Takashi Miike’s family horror musical comedy. TOMATOMETER 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”!

The Happiness Of The Katakuris. free festival, I never looked back. This is particularly illustrated by the opening segment that is set up to go round the houses and introduce us to the family which it does via a completely strange interconnected sequence largely filmed via Claymation techniques and animation. It was definitely Takeshi Miike getting his weird on. Despite the grim intensity of films like Ichi and Audition he explains that there is always plenty of humour even on sets of such films and it is a genre he grew up with, the dancing parts though were something new he wanted a stab (perhaps wrong phrase) at. We’ve seen his films run the gamut of crazy, intense violence, and unsettling horror themes, so somehow he pulled this one out of his needs as a film maker to produce a quirky family gone wrong sort of eye feast of a film. Available on iTunes, Arrow Video Channel, Prime Video, Tubi TV In Takashi Miike’s musical J-horror comedy, a family’s hotel guests keep mysteriously dying. Whilst in many ways simpler and reflective of the debt owed by Japanese cinema to Kurasawa, I much preferred the likes of 13 Assassins and Hara-Kiri. The Happiness of the Katakuris combines scenes of grotesque stop motion animation, surreal musical numbers, and zombies to make one the finest horror-comedies ever made.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”! Miike pulled off a hat trick in 2001, following up barf-inducing horror hits VISITOR Q and ICHI THE KILLER, with this shockingly sweet film, which instantly gained a reputation as one of the craziest cult films of all time. Yep right through where they have been disposing of the corpses.The film is partly narrated by the youngest member of the family a smiling, happy, dancing and cute acting tot of a girl but much of the action centres on her mother who is very single and falls in love with every bloke she sets eyes on. As for that dancing he explains it was never meant to look perfect as it would have made things too natural and he wanted the characters to retain a certain level of idiocy so did not allow them much time to practice before takes. The Happiness of the Katakuris combines scenes of grotesque stop motion animation, surreal musical numbers, and zombies to make one the finest horror-comedies ever made.

But when they try to cover their dilemma up by burying bodies in the backyard, they dig themselves deeper and deeper into a web of weirdness.

Enough said." Starring: Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda. It contains brief snapshots of all details from asking the actors what The Katukuris means to them; nobody seems 100% sure through to recording the songs, make up and costumes, acting and shooting on the actual locations. If you are starting out with this one though, you will find the more popular titles over here. It really does stand out and although there are a huge amount of comedic aspects in his films such as ghastly and gruesome predecessors like Visitor Q it does set out to inject humour as its central theme along with family, honour and other central principles that spill out from all his features. If I didn't spend time doing this I would be an alcoholic slumped without hope on the cold streets of London. The Happiness of the Katakuris combines scenes of grotesque stop motion animation, surreal musical numbers, and zombies to make one the finest horror-comedies ever made… It is fun for all the family and the four generations and dog that make up the Katakuris clan of the picture are definitely a fun family. Be warned if you are thinking of picking up Ichi The Killer though, the UK censors snipped off 3:15 from the running time.One thing’s for sure no matter how many Miike films you do end up watching there will never be one quite like The Happiness Of The Katakuris so if you are looking for something completely different and don’t mind a bit of a song and dance it’s well worth checking out.Quickly discovering in formative years that I was never quite going to fit in anywhere, I spent time growing up listening to punk, futurist, goth, industrial, metal and psychedelic sounds ranging from Hawkwind to The Sex Gang Children via Japan through to Crass mangled in with Psychic TV and New Model Army. Guest Curator, Elijah Wood: "Takashi Miike’s family horror musical comedy. Add to it all some of the most pleasant screen zombies ever who prove a pretty good chorus line and are actually the least of the beleaguered family’s problems.Apparently Miike took inspiration from Korean film The Quiet Family (Jee woon Kim1998) when he made Happiness in 2001. Where QUIET FAMILY was a staid, dry black comedy, KATAKURIS goes for broke with claymation scenes, no-budget musical numbers that would shame any Bollywood quickie and overall tasteless atmosphere. (In Japanese with English subtitles.)