DVD Year 2001 Video Release 2003-02-25 Studio Music Video Distributors Genre Comedy MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 99 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis From Takashi Miike, the prolific director of such shocking hits including Audition and Ichi the Killer comes The Sound of Music meets Dawn of the Dead! The Katakuris are a family trying to run a peaceful country inn but with a lack of guests there is much excitement for their first visitor, until they wind up dead! As each guest in turn dies in strange circumstances the family agree to hide the bodies but will the coverups come back to haunt them... In The Happiness of the Katakuris scenes of grotesque stop motion animation, surreal musical numbers and zombies combine to make one of the finest horror-comedies ever made. Director Takashi Miike Cast Takashi Miike; Kenji Sawada; Keiko Matsuzaka; Shinji Takeda