Takashi MIIKE 三池崇史
Happiness Of The Katakuris
カタクリ家の幸福
Nippon Cinema ª
In his musical remake of THE QUIET FAMILY, MIIKE tells the story of a normal family who is running a hotel. Their only problem is that the guests, after checking in, pass away and leave their corpses for them to handle. It starts a burial and becomes a graveyard. How long can they remain unrevealed?
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Happiness Of The Katakuris (NC 2003)
カタクリ家の幸福
Katakuri-ke no kofuku
Japan 2001
113 minutes
Director
Takashi MIIKE
Script
Kikumi YAMAGISHI
Cinematography
Hideo YAMAMOTO
Music
Koji ENDO, Koji MAKAINO
Production
Shochiku
World sales
Shochiku
Cast
Naomi NISHIDA, Kenji SAWADA, Keiko MATSUZAKA, Shinji TAKEDA, Naoto TAKENAKA, Tetsuro TANBA, Kiyoshiro IMAWANO
About Takashi MIIKE
三池崇史
Takashi MIIKE was born in Osaka Prefecture in 1960. During his studies at Yokohama Vocational School of Broadcast and Film, one of his teachers was famous director Shohei IMAMURA. Since his feature debut LADY HUNTER in 1991, MIIKE has created more than 100 films and TV series. Nippon Connection has kept a close eye on his career for almost 20 years, having screened his films ICHI THE KILLER (2001 / NC ’02), THE CITY OF LOST SOULS (2000 / NC ’02), THE HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS (2001 / NC ’03), LESSON OF THE EVIL (2012 / NC ’14 and NC ’20), and OVER YOUR DEAD BODY (2014 / NC ’15).