The Family Game Movie Review 1983

An obsessive satire about a poor, belligerent college student hired by a wealthy contemporary Japanese family to tutor their spoiled teenage son. Provides an all-out cultural assault on the Japanese bourgeoisie. From an original story by Yohei Honma. In Japanese with English subtitles.

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Available on VHS
Running time 107 minutes.
Originally from Japanese.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Satire & Parody

Screenplay

Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast

Junichi Tsujita, Yusaku Matsuda, Juzo Itami, Saori Yuki, Ichirota Miyagawa

Cinematography

Yonezo Maeda

Director

Yoshimitsu Morita

Producer

New Century, Nikkatsu