The film is best described as The Sound Of Music meets Night Of The Living Dead, revolving around a family-run guest house whose visitors have a nasty habit of turning up dead. If there truly is a thin line separating genius and lunacy, Miike crosses it repeatedly with this deranged gem. Masao Katakuri (Kanji Sawada) and his wife Terue (Keiko Matsuzaka) set up a motel in the Japanese mountains, and run it with their grandpa (Tetsuro Tamba) and children. Disaster strikes when their first guest, a middle-aged businessman, commits suicide by stabbing himself to death with his room key. The next occupants, a sumo wrestler and his girlfriend, also perish. Desperate to stay open, the Katakuris bury the bodies in the backyard, and as the corpses begin to pile up so the fun (and singing!) begins.