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Film/Video
TOKYO UNDERGROUND: TAKASHI MIIKE'S MAD BAD WORLD
THE HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS (KATAKURI-KE NO KOFUKU)
DIRECTED BY TAKASHI MIIKE

THURSDAY,
JUNE 5, 2003,
8 PM

$7 ($5 WALKER MEMBERS)
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Call it Little Shop of Horrors meets The Sound of Music meets The Hotel New Hampshire. After losing his job, Dad moves the oddball Katakuri family to the country to run a guest house, only no guests arrive. Finally a customer turns up . . . dead! This outrageous film mixes claymation, black comedy, horror, melodrama, and campy choreography into a Japanese-style Alpine musical with an unavoidable happy ending. "A delirious splatter-musical that imagines what might have happened if the Von Trapp family had wandered into Dawn of the Dead," wrote Time Out New York critic Mike D'Angelo about the film. 2001, Japan, color, 35mm, in Japanese with English subtitles, 113 minutes.