The Family Game
– A sendup of the stereo-typical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone;..
A sendup of the stereo-typical 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, played by the prototypical bad-boy actor Matsuda Yusaku, proceeds to blow the entire family apart.
01 Apr 1984
Japanese
Yoshimitsu Morita
Yôhei Honma (based on the novel by), Yoshimitsu Morita (screenplay)
Yûsaku Matsuda, Jûzô Itami, Saori Yuki, Ichirôta Miyakawa
A sendup of the stereo-typical 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, played by the prototypical bad-boy actor Matsuda Yusaku, proceeds to blow the entire family apart (Matsuda's role is modeled on the myth of Susano-o no mikoto, the renegade deity who figures in the Kojiki).
17 wins & 7 nominations.