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Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Why this pick
Matches the manic, stylised escalation and familial dysfunction of The Crazy Family, turning domestic pressure into a wildly comic, aggressively cinematic eruption.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1984 1h 42m JPN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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Why this pick
Its darkly funny institutional setting and unstable viewpoint echo The Crazy Family’s uneasy blend of social satire, mental strain, and sudden surreal intensity.
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The World of Kanako
Why this pick
A viciously stylised Japanese family nightmare, driven by fractured behaviour, sensory excess, and a relentless dismantling of parental control.
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The Happiness of the Katakuris
Why this pick
For another Japanese household pushed into gleeful absurdity: pitch-black humour, musical detours, and escalating calamities make family life feel explosively unstable.
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Tokyo Fist
Why this pick
Shares Gakuryû Ishii’s abrasive urban energy and physical visual style, with ordinary relationship pressures mutating into an obsessive, feverish breakdown.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The Kobayashi family finally get the chance to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment in favour of the suburban house of their dreams. But all is not well: the house is infested by termites and the family starts cracking up: Son Masaki is studying so obsessively for his exams that he's losing his mind; daughter Erika is oblivious of all but her forthcoming record company audition, grandfather Yasukuni starts getting World War II flashbacks and father Katsuhiko is so worried about his family's "sickness" that he thinks can only be cured by group suicide...
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Katsuya Kobayashi
Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Mitsuko Baisho
Saeko Kobayashi
Yoshiki Arizono
Masaki Kobayashi
Yūki Kudō
Erika Kobayashi (as Kudou Yuuki)
Hitoshi Ueki
Yasukune Kobayashi
