Family Game
Nominees and Awards
- ★ 1984 Kinema Junpo Awards Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay
- ★ 1984 Blue Ribbon Awards Best Director
- ★ 1984 Hochi Film Awards Best Film, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor
Synopsis
Set in an ordinary middle-class family, the film uses cynical humor to depict the uproar caused by an unconventional tutor who comes to the home of the second son, who is preparing to take the high school entrance exam. Based on the novel of the same name by HONMAYohei.
Team
Director
MORITA Yoshimitsu
MORITA Yoshimitsu was born in January 1950 in Chigasaki, Japan. Self-taught, first making shorts on 8mm film during the 1970s, he made his feature debut with Something Like It (1981). In 1983, he won acclaim for Kazoku Gēmu (The Family Game), which was voted the best film of the year by Japanese critics in the Kinema Junpo magazine poll and won him the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. He has been nominated for eight Japanese Academy Awards, winning the 2004 Best Director award for Like Asura. He died from acute liver failure in Tokyo in December 2011.
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