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* PeepingTom: Masayuki the creep takes a latter and climbs up to the window to peep on the sumo wrestler having sex with his girlfriend.
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* PeepingTom: ThePeepingTom: Masayuki the creep takes a latter and climbs up to the window to peep on the sumo wrestler having sex with his girlfriend.
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* ArtShift: Mostly live action, but with some claymation mixed in, like in the prologue where a woman finds a hideous little imp in her soup...and the imp tears out her uvula.
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* ArtShift: Mostly live action, but with some claymation mixed in, like AlmostDeadGuy: Masao is irritated when Richard, who had fallen off a cliff, manages to stagger back to the inn before collapsing and dying for real in the prologue where a woman finds a hideous little imp in her soup...and the imp tears out her uvula.front lobby.
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* ImpairmentShot: A cross between this and PaintingTheMedium as a staticky, blinking TV camera shot is used to show a grievously injured Richard staggering back to the inn after tumbling off the cliff.
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* BlatantLies: Much of Richard's claims to woo Shizue are this, beginning with the claim that he's a member of the British air force.
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* BlackComedy: A series of bizarre, freakish deaths played for laughs. When they find the sumo wrestler dead in his room, having gone OutWithABang, Terue contemplates the body and says "Looking at him like this, he seems even bigger." When it becomes obvious that they can't get his enormous body out through the hall, a comic scene has the whole family struggling to lower him out the window with a rope.
* BlatantLies: Much of Richard's claims to woo Shizue are this, beginning with the claim that he's a member of the British air force. Then he kicks it up a notch by claiming to be Queen Elizabeth II's illegitimate nephew.
* BlatantLies: Much of Richard's claims to woo Shizue are this, beginning with the claim that he's a member of the British air force. Then he kicks it up a notch by claiming to be Queen Elizabeth II's illegitimate nephew.
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* ChekhovsVolcano: About halfway through the movie, the volcano in the distance is shown belching smoke.
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* DramaticDrop: Shizue does this when she comes in to deliver tea and finds the corpses of the sumo wrestler and his unfortunate girfriend.
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* FanDisservice: Yep, that's a dead naked sumo wrestler.
* {{Flashback}}: One whole number is a flashback showing when the father first brought the family to the guesthouse, and sold them on restoring it and operating it as a business.
* FollowTheBouncingBall: A love song between Masao and Terue is accompanied by the lyrics popping up on the bottom of the screen, and the Japanese characters highlighting as the characters sing.
* {{Flashback}}: One whole number is a flashback showing when the father first brought the family to the guesthouse, and sold them on restoring it and operating it as a business.
* FollowTheBouncingBall: A love song between Masao and Terue is accompanied by the lyrics popping up on the bottom of the screen, and the Japanese characters highlighting as the characters sing.
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* JumpCut: A series of jump cuts in the scene where Shizue gives Richard her address only serves to reinforce the bizarre unrealness of the whole affair.
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* MindScrew: Filled with bizarre and disturbing imagery. The opening scene has a woman discovering an imp in her soup, an imp who rips her uvula out of her throat--and that has nothing to do with the rest of the movie. A scene with a TV reporter shows a bug crawling up the reporter's nose as the reporter desperately tries to maintain his composure.
* MoonRabbit: The Asian variant to TheManInTheMoon imagines that the face of the Moon shows a rabbit. Because this movie has to be a little bit weirder, it shows two rabbits humping. (This shot also immediately follows the scene where the sumo wrestler jumps on top of his girlfriend.)
* MoonRabbit: The Asian variant to TheManInTheMoon imagines that the face of the Moon shows a rabbit. Because this movie has to be a little bit weirder, it shows two rabbits humping. (This shot also immediately follows the scene where the sumo wrestler jumps on top of his girlfriend.)
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* {{Nosebleed}}: The peculiarly Japanese "nosebleed=horny" trope, usually found in anime, happens to Richard during his big love song with Shizue.
--> '''Richard''': My nose isn't bleeding because I'm horny. The blood is rushing to enhance my critical faculties.
--> '''Richard''': My nose isn't bleeding because I'm horny. The blood is rushing to enhance my critical faculties.
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* PeepingTom: Masayuki the creep takes a latter and climbs up to the window to peep on the sumo wrestler having sex with his girlfriend.
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* SleepingSingle: What with all the other worries, like burying bodies, the fact that Masao sleeps in one twin bed and his wife sleeps in another one is probably a minor concern.
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* WantedPoster: The local beat cop drops off a wanted poster that shows Richard on it.
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* GagCensor: During a musical number Shizue rolls by in a sort of giant hula hoop wheel. A heart pops up on screen over her crotch when she turns upside down and her dress flips up.
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* TheDeadCanDance: One of the song numbers feature the dead buried guests rising up and doing little a dance.
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* TheDeadCanDance: One of the song numbers feature the dead buried guests rising up and doing a little a dance.dance.
* DrivenToSuicide: The family's first guest kills himself in his room.
* DrivenToSuicide: The family's first guest kills himself in his room.
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* WritingIndentationClue: The father does this with the notepad in the first guest's room, scribbling over the indentation with a pencil and finding...a drawing of a naked woman with her legs spread. For some reason the family looks at this and reads the word "peach".
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* {{Narrator}}: Yurie, the little girl in the family, narrates the film.
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* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: At the very moment when the four weird ladies on a "spiritualist training trip" show up at the resort, the moon moves in front of the sun (much faster than it really does) and causes a total solar eclipse.
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* ArtShift: Mostly live action, but with some claymation mixed in, like in the prologue where a woman finds a hideous little imp in her soup...and the imp tears out her uvula.
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* BlackComedy: And how.
* BlatantLies: Richard is a big fan of this.
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* CatapultNightmare: Masao has a nightmare of finding the head of his first dead guest inside his fridge, and wakes bolting up screaming.
* TheDeadCanDance: One of the song numbers feature the dead buried guests rising up and doing little a dance.
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* {{Gorn}}: Only one scene, where a man commits suicide by stabbing himself with a sharpened key.
** Leading to a musical number where the Katakuris ask "He had a knife, why didn't he use that?!?"
** Leading to a musical number where the Katakuris ask "He had a knife, why didn't he use that?!?"
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* {{Gorn}}: Only one scene, where a man commits {{Gorn}}:
** A guest's corpse is found in his room, having graphically committed suicide by stabbing himself with a sharpenedkey.
** Leadingkey. This leads to a musical number where the Katakuris ask "He had a knife, why didn't he use that?!?"
** A guest's corpse is found in his room, having graphically committed suicide by stabbing himself with a sharpened
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* MediumBlending: Several sequences are done in {{Claymation}}.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: Pretty much all the guests.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They sing and dance!
* OutWithABang: A sumo wrestler who dies of a heart attack during sex; and his girlfriend who is unfortunately trapped underneath.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: Pretty much all the guests.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They sing and dance!
* OutWithABang: A sumo wrestler who dies of a heart attack during sex; and his girlfriend who is unfortunately trapped underneath.
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* MediumBlending: Several Three sequences are done in {{Claymation}}.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: Pretty much all{{Claymation}}; the guests.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They singlatter half of the opening scene, Richard and dance!
Jinpei falling down a ravine and [[spoiler:the family rescuing the guest house from the erupting volcano]].
* OutWithABang: A sumo wrestlerwho dies of from a heart attack during sex; and his girlfriend girlfriend, who is unfortunately trapped underneath.underneath, suffocates soon after.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: Pretty much all
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They sing
* OutWithABang: A sumo wrestler
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''The Happiness of the Katakuris'' is a 2001 Japanese film directed by TakashiMiike, and is very loosely based on the South Korean film ''Film/TheQuietFamily''. This movie blends so many different elements that it utterly defies description. It is in roughly equal parts SurrealHorror, BlackComedy, Musical, and {{Farce}}.
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''The Happiness of the Katakuris'' is a 2001 Japanese film directed by TakashiMiike, Creator/TakashiMiike, and is very loosely based on the South Korean film ''Film/TheQuietFamily''. This movie blends so many different elements that it utterly defies description. It is in roughly equal parts SurrealHorror, BlackComedy, Musical, and {{Farce}}.
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''The Happiness of the Katakuris'' is a 2001 Japanese film directed by TakashiMiike, and is very loosely based on the South Korean film ''Film/TheQuietFamily''. This movie blends so many different elements that it utterly defies description. It is in roughly equal parts SurrealHorror, BlackComedy, Musical, and {{Farce}}.
The Katakuri family, after [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption a long string of failures]] decide to pool their remaining resources and open a guest house in the country. At first, this seems like a great idea that is finally bringing a measure of success to the family; until their guests start dropping dead. Not from mysterious or supernatural means, nor even the result of a serial killer; but for purely mundane reasons. Suicide, heart failure, and so on. All played strictly for laughs as the family attempts to hide the bodies, in order to prevent the deaths from ruining the house's reputation; because, after all, dead bodies are bad for business.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Played for laughs. The narrator's a little girl; her mother randomly decided to run away from her father while pregnant; her uncle used to be a successful {{Salaryman}}... until the day he flipped out; and Grandpa is on death's door for most of the film.
* BlackComedy: And how.
* BlatantLies: Richard is a big fan of this.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: One of the main sources of the film's BlackComedy.
* ForeignRemake: Of a Korean movie called ''The Quiet Family''.
* {{Gorn}}: Only one scene, where a man commits suicide by stabbing himself with a sharpened key.
** Leading to a musical number where the Katakuris ask "He had a knife, why didn't he use that?!?"
** The bit with an imp tearing out a woman's uvula is kind of gorn-ish, but it's in Claymation.
* GratuitousEnglish: PlayedForLaughs. Richard Sagawa randomly peppers his speech with English words in an attempt to back up his [[BlatantLies dubious claims]] that he's a British Navy Officer.
* MediumBlending: Several sequences are done in {{Claymation}}.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: Pretty much all the guests.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They sing and dance!
* OutWithABang: A sumo wrestler who dies of a heart attack during sex; and his girlfriend who is unfortunately trapped underneath.
* {{Pastiche}}: Of so many things; including classic Hollywood musicals and horror films.
* RuleOfFunny: Especially if it's ''darkly'' funny.
* ZanyScheme
The Katakuri family, after [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption a long string of failures]] decide to pool their remaining resources and open a guest house in the country. At first, this seems like a great idea that is finally bringing a measure of success to the family; until their guests start dropping dead. Not from mysterious or supernatural means, nor even the result of a serial killer; but for purely mundane reasons. Suicide, heart failure, and so on. All played strictly for laughs as the family attempts to hide the bodies, in order to prevent the deaths from ruining the house's reputation; because, after all, dead bodies are bad for business.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Played for laughs. The narrator's a little girl; her mother randomly decided to run away from her father while pregnant; her uncle used to be a successful {{Salaryman}}... until the day he flipped out; and Grandpa is on death's door for most of the film.
* BlackComedy: And how.
* BlatantLies: Richard is a big fan of this.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: One of the main sources of the film's BlackComedy.
* ForeignRemake: Of a Korean movie called ''The Quiet Family''.
* {{Gorn}}: Only one scene, where a man commits suicide by stabbing himself with a sharpened key.
** Leading to a musical number where the Katakuris ask "He had a knife, why didn't he use that?!?"
** The bit with an imp tearing out a woman's uvula is kind of gorn-ish, but it's in Claymation.
* GratuitousEnglish: PlayedForLaughs. Richard Sagawa randomly peppers his speech with English words in an attempt to back up his [[BlatantLies dubious claims]] that he's a British Navy Officer.
* MediumBlending: Several sequences are done in {{Claymation}}.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: Pretty much all the guests.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They sing and dance!
* OutWithABang: A sumo wrestler who dies of a heart attack during sex; and his girlfriend who is unfortunately trapped underneath.
* {{Pastiche}}: Of so many things; including classic Hollywood musicals and horror films.
* RuleOfFunny: Especially if it's ''darkly'' funny.
* ZanyScheme
