The Family Game

A satirical, energetic deconstruction of the Japanese nuclear family that uses absurdist comedy and social critique to expose the dysfunction lurking beneath postwar domestic conformity.

A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, 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 proceeds to blow the entire family apart.