The Family Game (家族ゲーム, Kazoku Gēmu?) is a 1983 Japanese movie directed by Yoshimitsu Morita. It focuses on a dysfunctional middle-class nuclear family—each family member is connected not internally, but through the social roles they are expected to take on, and the pressure of these social expectations further accelerates the breakdown in their communication. The Family Game received several awards including the best movie of the year as selected by Japanese critics. Although the movie missed the Japan Academy Prize for the Best Picture (losing out to The Ballad of Narayama), Ichirōta Miyagawa was awarded Newcomer of the Year.
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“I can only sign over everything,
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