The Family Game

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The Family Game ★★★ Kazoku gaimu; Kazoku Game 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. 107m/C VHS, DVD . JP Junichi Tsujita, Yusaku Matsuda, Juzo Itami, Saori Yuki, Ichirota Miyagawa; D: Yoshimitsu Morita; W: Yoshimitsu Morita; C: Yonezo Maeda.

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