Escape from Tomorrow vs The Happiness of the Katakuris

The Happiness of the Katakuris has the higher audience score (6.9/10 against 4.8/10 for Escape from Tomorrow). Escape from Tomorrow is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 53m. The Happiness of the Katakuris is the older of the two (2002 against 2013). Both are comedy, drama, horror movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Escape from Tomorrow posterEscape from Tomorrow2013 VS The Happiness of the Katakuris posterThe Happiness of the Katakuris2002
Escape from TomorrowThe Happiness of the Katakuris
Audience score★ 4.8/10★ 6.9/10
Year20132002
Length1h 30m1h 53m
GenresComedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, ThrillerComedy, Drama, Horror
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorRandy MooreTakashi Miike
Main castAnnet Mahendru, Alison Lees-Taylor, Roy Abramsohn, Lee Armstrong, Elena SchuberNaoto Takenaka, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Kenichi Endo, Yoshiki Arizono, Tetsuro Tamba

Synopsis

Escape from Tomorrow

In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.

The Happiness of the Katakuris

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.

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