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The Family Game is a film of genre Drama directed by Yoshimitsu Morita with Yūsaku Matsuda

The Family Game (1983)

The Family Game
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Length 1h47
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Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating71% 3.5888053.5888053.5888053.5888053.588805

The Family Game (家族ゲーム, Kazoku Gēmu) is a 1983 Japanese movie directed by Yoshimitsu Morita. The Family Game received several awards including the best movie of the year as selected by Japanese critics. Although the movie missed the Japan Academy Prize for the Best Picture (losing out to The Ballad of Narayama), Ichirōta Miyagawa was awarded Newcomer of the Year.

Synopsis

The Numata family consists of the father, Kōsuke (Juzo Itami); mother, Chikako (Saori Yuki); and two sons, Shinichi (Jun'ichi Tsujita) and Shigeyuki (Ichirōta Miyagawa). Shigeyuki is a junior high school student. He will soon be taking a high school entrance examination. Unlike the high school student brother, Shinichi, who lives up to the father's expectations, Shigeyuki’s grades are poor, and he is only interested in roller coasters. The father finds a private tutor, Yoshimoto (Yusaku Matsuda), for Shigeyuki and imposes all responsibilities for his exam on the tutor. Yoshimoto's behaviour is extremely strange, including kissing Shigeyuki and hitting him painfully hard. Even though Yoshimoto is a seventh year student of a third-rate university, Shigeyuki’s marks become better and better. Eventually he passes the exam for the high school. At a family celebration, Yoshimoto begins to riot, hitting people, pouring wine on their heads, and throwing spaghetti around wildly.

Actors

Yūsaku Matsuda

(Yoshimoto)Jūzō Itami

(Mr. Numata)Saori Yuki

(Mrs. Numata)Yoko Aki

(Yoshimoto's Lover)Jun Togawa

(Neighbour's Wife)Shūsuke Kaneko

(Bookstore Guy)
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