Select Japan is delighted to present, in collaboration with The Japan Foundation, the UK premiere of the digital restoration of Yoshimitsu Morita's classic satire, The Family Game. The screening will be introduced by Tony Rayns.

Things begin to unravel when the parents in what seems like an ordinary lower-middle-class family in Japan decide to hire a tutor to improve their middle schooler’s failing grades. The enigmatic tutor, played by the irresistible Yūsaku Matsuda, is like a cannon let loose, ping-ponging between the family members and twisting facades of convention into the realm of the absurd. Visually inventive, bitingly sharp, audacious, and full of wit, the film immediately launched Morita into the upper echelons of contemporary Japanese cinema. Winner of seven Japanese Academy Awards that year (including Best Director and Best Actor), this production of the critically acclaimed Art Theatre Guild became an instant classic, bursting with an energy that still sends out ripples today.

Cast:
Yūsaku Matsuda, Jūzō Itami, Yuki Saori, Ichirôta Miyakawa