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Happy Family Planning

Original title: Akarui kazoku keikaku
  • Episode aired Apr 5, 2004
  • TV-MA
  • 23m
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8.4/10
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Paranoia Agent (2004)
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Three Internet buddies form a pact to meet and commit suicide together. But as these poor souls bungle their numerous kamikaze attempts, they become close to each other.Three Internet buddies form a pact to meet and commit suicide together. But as these poor souls bungle their numerous kamikaze attempts, they become close to each other.Three Internet buddies form a pact to meet and commit suicide together. But as these poor souls bungle their numerous kamikaze attempts, they become close to each other.

  • Director
    • Satoshi Kon
  • Writers
    • Satoshi Kon
    • Seishi Minakami
  • Stars
    • Mîna Tominaga
    • Yasunori Matsumoto
    • Kiyoshi Kawakubo
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.4/10
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    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Satoshi Kon
    • Writers
      • Satoshi Kon
      • Seishi Minakami
    • Stars
      • Mîna Tominaga
      • Yasunori Matsumoto
      • Kiyoshi Kawakubo
    • 1User review
    • 6Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Mîna Tominaga
    Mîna Tominaga
    • Kamome
    • (voice)
    Yasunori Matsumoto
    Yasunori Matsumoto
    • Zebra
    • (voice)
    Kiyoshi Kawakubo
    • Fuyubachi
    • (voice)
    Ryûji Saikachi
    • Old Man
    • (voice)
    Stephanie Sheh
    Stephanie Sheh
    • Kamome
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • (as Lulu Chiang)
    Patrick Seitz
    Patrick Seitz
    • Zebra
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Doug Stone
    Doug Stone
    • Fuyubachi
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    William Frederick Knight
    William Frederick Knight
    • Old Man
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • (as William Frederick)
    • Director
      • Satoshi Kon
    • Writers
      • Satoshi Kon
      • Seishi Minakami
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    10alexdmcintosh

    Plays you like a fiddle

    Outstanding episode, and certainly the one that stuck with me long after the end of the show.

    You'd be fine for choosing Double Lips as the best of the series, but that one is just sort of a re-skinned Perfect Blue. Happy Family Planning plays on the viewers' biases to show how numb we are becoming to others that you don't notice the truth until it is abstractly revealed at the end. Even a horrifying moment early in the plot involving a train ends in a punchline you could see being a reality soon.

    It tells an unconventional story that walks a tricky tonal tight-rope to show how even in the darkest places people find joy, redemption, and yes, even a family. It'll linger in your mind for a long while.

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    • Trivia
      In the UK, the 80-second sequence where the trio attempts to hang themselves was removed by BBC censors.
    • Quotes

      [first lines]

      [on an Internet blog]

      Zebra: Did you wait long?

      Fuyubachi: Waiting can be fun... BTW, where's Kamome?

      Zebra: Said she's going to bed for the big day tomorrow...

      [Two strangers, both wearing a distinctive Maromi bag, come across and recognize each other]

    • Alternate versions
      The UK DVD version is cut by 1m 20s to remove the attempted suicide scene.

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    • Release date
      • April 5, 2004 (Japan)
    • Production company
      • Dybex
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      23 minutes

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