A Review of The Family Game by Yoshimitsu Morita Essays -- Kazoku Gemo

I keeped The Family Game (Kazoku Gemo) by Yoshimitsu Morita. sequence initially hesitant I wound up loving the photographic film. It was a satire that succeeded both in being a pleasure to watch and also at times absolutely hilarious. The Family Game is basically a satire about Japans new middle stratum in the 1980s. The word-painting intermixes industrial imagery between scenes which give the film a bleak feel. At the lowest level this is a movie about Shigeyuki Numata, a clearly intelligent student who (unlike his brother Shinichi) is for the most part unconcerned about his academics and does poorly in school. Shigeyukis father, a professional worker who is evidently comparatively affluent (but by no message rich), relents to finding his son a tutor (e.g. what Sugimoto describes as shadow information). Yoshimoto takes on the challenge of increasing Shigeyukis grades and is relentless and demanding in his approach. However, on a more abstract level this is a film with prac tically larger aspirations. The Family Game explores the problems with the educational systems in Japan, a dysfunctional Nipponese family, gender roles, ...