For The Japanese film directors who debuted in the 80s, it was undoubtedly the worst of times, old and new, the turmoil of the film industry, and these people fell into an embarrassing future gap – where to say?.
Morita Yoshihikaru is undoubtedly one of the most representative and outstanding figures of the times. Family games were also a highlight of Japanese cinema in the early 1980s, and its birth, in a sense, was in line with molota Yoshihikaru's ideals: shooting world-class productions at an extremely low cost, with the perfect balance between budget and content. Most of the scenes in the film are indoors, and some outdoor scenes are single, average, but they don't affect it as an outstanding work.
Zhao Tian's family of four is an ordinary, even very monotonous, Japanese family. Filial piety to the help of mom and dad, chizuru ko, hako shinichi, Mao's second son. The parents put a lot of effort and hope into the two children and asked them to study hard so that they could get into a good university. Serious study, send goods to famous high schools, but Mao's grades are not good, but he did not study. In desperation, Xiao Fu brought a tutor, hoping to give him a refresher class and enter a good high school, but he and his home teacher also made a big deal.
Gibbon Sheng is a three-year college student, but came to Zhao Tian as Mao's mentor. Many tutors were powerless in the past, gibbon guidance was effective, and Mao's grades began to improve rapidly. But this change, the whole family began to internally abnormal waves of teachers and parents, between families, parents and children, children gradually fell into a huge conflict and contradiction between, the calm of the family surface, the potential contradictions further intensified, the conflict broke out ...
Compared to the new generation of Japanese filmmakers, who grew up in the shadow of their masters, how to inherit the tradition and get out of their own style has always been a big contradiction. We found, including morita yoshihikaru, et al. The theme of itami is chosen thirteen, carefully maintaining the traditional Japanese family drama, but in order to maintain the flavor, the older generation representatives who established standards as directors abandoned Ozu. So this family game looks very special: black and fun.
The film is based on the main line and is still linear, but in the process, but directed into many basic ulterior motives of the film plot or pictures have nothing to do with it, such as the picture of the school children moving on the playground appears multiple times, resulting in a poor narrative; there are many inexplicable jumps. For example, the two only say that the parents come outside indoors, forming inconsistent logic before and after. The originality of this form not only did not interfere with the film, but also set off the theme of the film well, completing the unity of form and content.
The film's theme is about the plight of people in modern urban life: the disappearance of traditional family relationships and the estrangement between people – as Xiao Jin excels. If we look closely, there is very little substantive communication between people in such a family.