The Happiness of the Katakuris

February. 23,2002      R
Rating:
6.9
Trailer Synopsis Cast

The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.

Kenji Sawada as  Masao Katakuri
Keiko Matsuzaka as  Terue Katakuri
Shinji Takeda as  Masayuki Katakuri
Naomi Nishida as  Shizue Katakuri
Tetsurō Tamba as  Granpa Jinpei Katakuri
Naoto Takenaka as  TV Reporter / Singer
Yoshiki Arizono as  Father of the Poor Family
Kenichi Endo as  Kudou
Moeko Ezawa as  Itako
Yoshiyuki Morishita as  Policeman Miyaki

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