Delightful and bizarre movie by Miike's perverted mind. Funny, curious, original and irregular too; like all his production. Using football (soccer) terms, it reminds me to a typical attacking midfielder (f.e. Özil, Guti) who plays like god one minute but the next plays like the worst player of the worst team; too much quality but discontinuous. That's how I see him, if you make a thousand works per year it's very hard to keep high standards of quality. Let's focus in this film, great staging, well used resources (good option using stop-motion for most complex scenes), delirious characters (Sagawa, sumo and the schoolgirl are awesome), big hit moments (when the first body is found out, I laughed a lot with the family) and the plot
well, the plot doesn't matter. Aesthetically it's a great work, from an original and bold film maker; there is no doubt about it. But I may say, in my opinion, there are points which don't allow this movie be perfect. Some of this points; most of musical interludes are boring and childish, lack of rhythm in some passages (musical moments don't help with this), father's character performance doesn't get me at all (perhaps is something cultural, some Asians performances exasperate me due to their lack of realism and that submissive silence I can't understand). In short, it's a worth see movie and it will sure split people in their opinions. But we must put aside our conventions and prejudices to enjoy it and let us embraced by the creativity and the universe of Takashi Miike.
Review of The Happiness of the Katakuris
