Kazoku Game (The Family Game)
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita (1983)106min.
Cast: Yusaku Matsuda (Yoshimoto), Juzo Itami, Ichirota Miyakawa (Shigeyuki), Saori Yuki, Junichi Tsujita, Yoko Aki, Jun Togawa, Yoneko Matsukane, Katsunobu Ito, Kentarou Shimizu
Staff: Based on Novel-Youhei Honnma, Screenplay-Yoshimitsu Morita, Cinematography-Yonezou Maeda
Mr.Numata hired a tutor for younger son who should prepare to the entrance exam. Their daily life seems plane and calm, but it getting sway by this strangetutor. This movie has no music almost, very simple and sketched with novel feeling. Entrance exam for better school is serious matter in our society because it's includes factors of desolate or crook.
Yusaku and director Morita were awarded a lot of prize. Their sensibility are matches very good way. This movie shows middle class family in modern (present) Japan with deformation.
Mr.Juzou Itami who played father became a director later, he made Taxing Woman,Tampopo and so on.