Family Game
Call Number: Digital Video
Alternate Title: Kazoku gêmu, 家族ゲーム
Year: 1984
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
Duration: 107 mins
Language(s): Japanese
Subtitle Language(s): English
A sendup of the stereo-typical Japanese family: dad is a typical salaryman, 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.)