The Katakuris are a four-generation family of failures (grandfather, father and 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.

DVD Features: Original Trailer, Commentary from Takashi Miike, Interview with Takashi Miike, Making of Special, Interviews with the Katakuris, Animating the Katakuris.

Spoken Languages: Japanese, English subtitles.