It's a Beautiful Day (film)

It's a Beautiful Day (クソすばらしいこの世界) is a 2013 Japanese horror film directed by Kayoko Asakura. It stars Kim Kkot-bi. It is the debut film by Kayoko Asakura and had its premiere at the Yubari Film Festival in 2013. The film is set in California, where A-jung (Kim Kkot-bi) is picked up by her Japanese friend Takako (Amagi Chika). They visit Takako's friends who treat A-jung poorly. That night around a campfire, mysterious supernatural events begin to happen involving Takako's friends.

Release
It's a Beautiful Day premiered at the Yubari Film Festival on February 22, 2013. It received a theatrical release in Japan on June 8, 2013.

Reception
Derek Elley of Film Business Asia gave It's a Beautiful Day a 7/10 rating, opining that the "blackly humorous" film mixed "Japanese splatter with US backwoods horror" to produce "an Asian-American hybrid that's a delirious trip to the outer reaches of the slasher movie." In a review written for Fangoria, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas praised the film, calling the performances "compelling" and going on to say, "the supernatural twist will either win you or lose you, but the film admirably does not stop to see if we're keeping up."