Plots(1)
A sendup of the stereo-typical 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, played by the prototypical bad-boy actor Matsuda Yusaku, proceeds to blow the entire family apart (Matsuda's role is modeled on the myth of Susano-o no mikoto, the renegade deity who figures in the Kojiki). (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Yûsaku Matsuda
Japan
Best movies:
Black Rain (1989)
Jūzō Itami
Japan
Best movies:
The Makioka Sisters (1983)
Lord Jim (1965)
55 Days at Peking (1963)
Mariko Kaga
Japan
Best movies:
Silence Has No Wings (1966)
Love Letter (1995)
Pale Flower (1964)
Asako Maekawa
Japan
Yoneko Matsukane
Japan
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白川和子
Japan
Best movies:
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
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Black Rain (1989)
戸川純
Japan
Hajime Hana
Japan
Best movies:
Graveyard of Honor (1975)
Hunter in the dark (1979)
Cleopatra: Queen of Sex (1970)
Yumi Shirakawa
Japan
Best movies:
The End of Summer (1961)
47 Ronin (1962)
The Mysterians (1957)
Ichirôta Miyakawa
Japan
Best movies:
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