Films like The Happiness of the Katakuris.
The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001) reads as Warm, breathless, measured comedy / horror, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the running vein of humour; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the running vein of humour; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
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