#7 The Happiness of the Katakuris - A slight departure from shock director Takashi Miike.

Audiences have come to expect the unexpected from the prolific Miike (he cranks out 4 or 5 movies a year). Audition terrorized audiences with a grotesque torture scene. Ichi the Killer spattered bodily fluids in new, sadistic ways. The Happiness of the Katakuris trumps his other films by taking a new lighthearted direction. There's stop motion animation, a handful of musical numbers (one with onscreen karaoke text) in this odd take on The Trouble With Harry. Did I mention the uvula eating angel and the dancing sumo zombie? Miike is a mad, unpredictable genius with an endless imagination and Happiness of the Katakuris is perhaps my favorite of his films because of its sinister dose of unexpected positivity.