Summaries

A family moves to the country to run a rustic mountain inn when, to their horror, the customers begin befalling sudden and unlikely fates.

The Katakuri's family have build an inn in the countryside in order that the whole family work together. Their first guest commits suicide in his room and they bury the body nearby the lake. Their second and third guests die while having sex and they bury the couple. Soon they receive the con-artist Richâdo Sagawa and they get rid off him. Meanwhile the police officers come to their inn to find a man that killed his wife.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A pioneer of a man convinces his family to take advantage of news of a road soon to be built through an area of the country that can be had for next to nothing. He, his aging, but wise father, his loving and loyal wife, along with a slow-to-persuade son and a divorced daughter with toddler in hand who also happens to be the narrator, bravely move out to this new space and open a bed and breakfast. They make the place everything anyone could want, as they have so much time to work on it, since no one is making reservations to stay there. Eventually, the customers come...but each one dies while in their room and the family is trying to get rid of the evidence a.s.a.p so as not to ruin their reputation before they even get up and running. One thing leads to another and the bodies have to be moved.—Natalie D. Roberts "sonta_en"

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.—Moritz Muehlenhoff <[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • absurdism
  • suicide
  • sing along
  • grandmother grandchild relationship
  • guesthouse
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Musical
Release date Feb 22, 2002
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin Japan
Language Japanese
Filming locations Kameoka, Kyoto, Japan
Production companies Dentsu Eisei Gekijo Ganmo

Box office

Budget $1500000

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 53m
Color Color
Sound mix Stereo
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

From prolific Japanese cult director Miike Takashi comes an all-singing, all-dancing zombie horror flick. The story centres on recently retrenched Masao Katakuri who has decided to take over a bed and breakfast on a piece of land he bought which was originally a rubbish dump in a remote mountain area near Mountain Fuji.

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