The Family Game
家族ゲーム
Comedy
Drama
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.
1983-05-04
ja
Cast
Director
Yoshimitsu Morita
Yūsaku Matsuda as Sho Yoshimoto
Jūzō Itami as Kosuke Numata
Saori Yuki as Chikako Numata
Ichirôta Miyakawa as Shigeyuki 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
Asako Maekawa as Yuriko Tagami
Mayumi Sato as Mieko Yamashita
Kentarō Shimizu as Young Teacher
Yoko Aki as Yoshimoto's Girlfriend
Shusuke Kaneko as Bookstore Clerk (uncredited)