The Happiness of the Katakuris

• Comedy
• Drama
• Horror

A darkly comedic and unsettling tale unfolds within the isolated Katakuri family guest house, where escalating accidental deaths become a macabre family secret. As bodies accumulate in the backyard, the family’s attempts to maintain a façade of normalcy devolve into increasingly frantic and bizarre cover-ups, punctuated by unexpected musical numbers. This isn’t a horror film focused on scares, but rather a strangely heartwarming and absurd exploration of familial dysfunction and the lengths people will go to protect one another, even when drowning in a literal and metaphorical grave. The film finds humor not in the deaths themselves, but in the utterly inept and desperate attempts to conceal them, creating a uniquely unsettling yet oddly comforting atmosphere of escalating chaos.