The Family Game (1983)

Name: The Family Game
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1983-05-04
Duration: 107 min
Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda, Jūzō Itami, Saori Yuki, Ichirôta Miyakawa, Junichi Tsujita

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. The tutor proceeds to blow the entire family apart.

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Released 1983-05-04 · 107 min · Comedy, Drama

Directed by Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast

Yūsaku Matsuda as Sho Yoshimoto
Jūzō Itami as Kosuke Numata
Saori Yuki as Chikako Numata
Ichirôta Miyakawa as Shigeyuki Numata
Junichi Tsujita as Shinichi Numata
Yoneko Matsukane as Shigeyuki's English Teacher
Kaori Okamoto as Mieko's Older Sister
Jun Togawa as Neighbor's Wife
Kazuko Shirakawa as Mieko's Mother
Shinobu Tsuruta as Shinichi's English and Homeroom Teacher
Shiro Sasaki as Mieko's Father
Katsunobu Ito as Shigeyuki's Japanese Teacher
Yoshihiro Kato as Shigeyuki's Homeroom Teacher
Koichiro Doi as Yutaka Tsuchiya
Takuya Uemura as Jun Mitsui