Happiness of the Katakuris 2001  R, 113 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Kenji Sawada, Naomi Nishida, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda, Tetsuro Tamba, Naoto Takenaka, Kiyoshiro Imawano, Moeko Ezawa, Tamaki Miyazaki, Takashi Matsuzaki, Kenichi Endo, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Yoshiki Arizono, Chihiro Asakawa, Yumeki Kanazawa
This dark musical comedy concerns the dysfunctional Katakuri family as they renovate and then open a lodge in a remote part of Japan. It is expected that tourism will boom when the projected highway is built. But the problems start with the first guest, a sickly man, who commits suicide. Not wanting bad publicity, they bury the body in the backyard. The next guest, likewise, dies–of a heart attack, and so it goes with guest after guest, and the ground fills with bodies. Still no highway, but the nearby volcano adds to their problems.
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Pistol Opera 2001  N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Cast: Makiko Esumi, Sayoko Yamaguchi, Kan Hanae, Masatoshi Nagase, Mikijiro Hira, Kirin Kiki, Kenji Sawada, Haruko Kato, Tomio Aoki, Yeong-he Han
"Stray Cat" (Makiko Esumi) is the #3-ranked Japanese assassin, and the erotic killer shows no mercy in her quest to be #1. Cult director Seijun Suzuki came out of retirement to rework and remake his 1967 "Branded to Kill."
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| 1. Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
2. Pistol Opera (2001)
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