#カタクリ家の幸福

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The Happiness of the Katakuris カタクリ家の幸福 (2001) dir Takashi Miike

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The Happiness of The Katakuris | カタクリ家の幸福 (2001) dir. Miike Takashi

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the happiness of the katakuris (2001). dir. takashi miike.

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The Happiness of the Katakuris 'カタクリ家の幸福' (2001) dir. Takashi Miike

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31 Days of Productivity Reading もう一回！: Days 28-29

Day 28: I had a very reading relaxed day. In true fashion of someone who spends the majority of their free time starting at words on paper, I really didn't know what else to do with my free time beyond reading, so I ended up finishing A Psalm for the Wild-Built and returning that to my library, then starting Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. And yes, I did make a conscious decision to not read in Japanese because I wanted to give myself space.

However, I did indeed still get some Japanese practice in! Not only have I been getting along surprisingly well with doing N2 flashcards (I consistently know 1/3 of them and I'm still on my first time through the deck. So yes, immersion does work!), I also watched a movie in Japanese. I watched カタクリ家の幸福 which is an absurdist horror comedy musical about a family who opens up a bed and breakfast and all of their patrons start dying. I really enjoyed it, even if some of the jokes didn't age very well. It was weird, stupid in parts, visually stunning, and really engaging. I also watched without any subtitles and found it pretty accessible, except for one character who spoke in a fake accent and another who spoke about a hundred words per second. I think I'd recommend it to anyone who already likes weird movies, and especially the specific brand of 90s/2000s Japanese weird.

Day 29: I read a little bit in Japanese today and read 狼の皮をかぶった羊姫 which is a fantasy GL about a wolf butler and a sheep princess. It took me under an hour to get through and that's probably just as much time as I'd like to spend on it. It seemed to rely on kawaii and moe more than actual substance to get the audience to enjoy it. I'm not sure if I'll buy the rest of the series, but I'll at least read what I've got of it. It was also 144 pages long, which completes my goal of 100 pages per day! Even though I'm mostly considering my challenge completed, even though its... not.

Since I'm considering myself largely finished with this challenge, let's take a look at how I did

Read 100 pages of manga OR 25 pages of a novel each day [26/29 - not bad]

Finish reading three novels [2/3 - I'm okay with that]

Read ten volumes of manga [11/10 - crushing the manga game!]

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The Happiness of the Katakuris [カタクリ家の幸福] (2001)

As greater minds have stated, the musical is a tool for heightened expression.  When emotions can’t be contained by dialogue, they must be sung.  When singing is insufficient, it must be expressed through dance.  But what happens when even dance falls short?  Apparently, claymation is the remedy, the more horrific the better.  Takashi Miike’s pure farce of a tale takes the black comedy foundations of the Korean original and elevates them to the point of absurdity.  The layabout ex-con son is no longer merely peeking at guests having sex through a door, he’s climbing ladders and falling off them to get his peeping tom kicks.  The depressive hiker is no longer merely just a strange loner, he borderline appears to think the world is ending.  The climax calls for no mere cremation but rather the pyroclastic flows of Fuji itself.  This is about excess and extravagance, insanity rendered on a shoestring budget and yet all the better for it.  You get to have your musical and make a karaoke number of it, too.  

Kim Jee-woon’s dark comedy of manners is a wonderfully off-kilter imagining of just how far dreams and aspirations can go wrong.  And yet somehow with his maximalist spin on the basic story, Takashi Miike finds further acerbic social commentary in its layers.  This is grind culture before there were shitty corporate listicles about side hustles, about just how foolhardy it is to try and get ahead.  Masao and Terue serenade one another in a brilliantly incisive karaoke sequence, at once mocking the absurd specificity of Japanese karaoke videos while taking the piss out of the blue collar success story of this couple: they thought they could retire to a quiet lodge lifestyle and spend their golden years running a sleepy if successful inn.  What do they get in return?  Bodies bodies bodies.

THE RULES

SIP

Whimsical Sound of Music adjacent music kicks in.

Animated element.

A new guest appears.

Stuttering jump cuts within a scene.

BIG DRINK

A song and/or dance sequence begins.

The Moon appears onscreen.

Someone names a British Royal.

You lose your goddamn mind.

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The Happiness of the Katakuris, 'カタクリ家の幸福' (2001)

dir. Takashi Miike

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La mélodie du malheur, 2001, Takashi Miike

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The Happiness of the Katakuris (カタクリ家の幸福) | 2001, dir. Takashi Miike

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The Happiness of the Katakuris (カタクリ家の幸福 Katakuri-ke no Kōfuku) 2001 directed by Takashi Miike with screenplay by Kikumi Yamagishi.

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The Happiness of the Katakuris (カタクリ家の幸福 Katakuri-ke no Kōfuku) 2001 is Takashi Miike at his happiest! https://www.instagram.com/p/BtcC7F3BMBH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xdoel1prgmel

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Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike, 2001)