Katakurike no kófuku
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The Katakuris are a 4-generation family of failures (grandfather, father & mother, children, and granddaughter, who narrates the film) who use the father's redundancy pay to buy a guest house in the country. Somehow, each of their guests ends up dead - by suicide, accident, or murder - and once they have made the decision to save their business by burying the bodies and concealing the deaths, they find themselves sucked into a nightmare of lies and fear. None of this is helped by the arrival of the daughter's con-man boyfriend, an escaped murderer with police in hot pursuit, and an erupting volcano. (official distributor synopsis)
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This is truly terrible madness. Along with Terry Gilliam, Takashi Miike is one of the few filmmakers who will make a puppet sequence work in a film that is predominantly live-action. Miike placed it right at the beginning, but it's not the only one. But that's enough to plunge you into a crazy genre mishmash that you'll either enjoy or quickly ditch. I enjoyed it.
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