Plots(1)
The Katakuris are a 4-generation family of failures (grandfather, father & mother, children, and granddaughter, who narrates the film) who use the father's redundancy pay to buy a guest house in the country. Somehow, each of their guests ends up dead - by suicide, accident, or murder - and once they have made the decision to save their business by burying the bodies and concealing the deaths, they find themselves sucked into a nightmare of lies and fear. None of this is helped by the arrival of the daughter's con-man boyfriend, an escaped murderer with police in hot pursuit, and an erupting volcano. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
松坂慶子
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Kiyoshiro Imawano
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Tetsurô Tamba
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Shinji Takeda
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Tokitoshi Shiota
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