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The Family Game is considered one of the best Japanese films by film critics. Kinema Junpo, the premiere film magazine of Japan, ranked it as the 10th best Japanese film of all time (in 2009), the best Japanese film of the 1980s (in 2018), and the best Japanese film of the year (in 1983).
Mar 6, 2024 · The Family Game, which is based on Yohei Honma’s novel, is exactly that. The film, like any good satire, will both shock and make its audience smile, satirising many aspects of the modern Japanese society, from “tiger parents” to table manners.
The typical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman; mom is a housewife; the older son is a moderate academic; while the younger son is a hopeless goof-off for whom a tutor must is hired. The tutor is a bad-boy who proceeds to blow the family apart.
May 8, 2021 · Yoshimitsu Moritu’s The Family Game (Kazoku gemu, 1983) – based on Yohei Honma’s novel- is an absurdist satire on the Japanese middle-class. It’s full of instantly recognizable characters living in a schematically rigid social and familial atmosphere.
A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom a tutor must be hired.
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- Yoshimitsu Morita
Apr 11, 2022 · The family was the fundamental unit of Japanese society, but by the eighties it was seen by many to have gone adrift. This uneasiness is the subject of The Family Game, a satirical look at the family in the age of the salaryman that is often more revealing than it is funny. From the very…
Japanese parents (Juzo Itami, Saori Yuki) hire a tutor (Yusaku Matsuda) for their foolish son and get a critic of their lifestyle.
- Comedy, Animation
