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Overview
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Release Date:
11 February 1986 (USA)
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Plot:
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...
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Suicide
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Termite
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Striptease
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Japan
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Improvised Weapon
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Awards:
1 win
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Brilliant film which pushes its initial set-up just as far as it can go
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Cast
(in credits order) (complete, awaiting verification) | Katsuya Kobayashi | ... | Katsuhiko Kobayashi |
| Mitsuko Baishô | ... | Saeko Kobayashi |
| Yoshiki Arizono | ... | Masaki Kobayashi |
 | Youki Kudoh | ... | Erika Kobayashi (as Kudou Yuuki) |
| Hitoshi Ueki | ... | Yasukune Kobayashi |
| Kazuhiko Kishino | ||
| Toyoko Koumi | ||
| Akira Ogata | ||
| Iwao Hayashizaki | ||
| Nobuhiro Gomori | ||
| Yoshinori Inoue | ||
| Hirona Takahashi | ||
| Kunihiro Ide | ||
| Alex Ablamov |
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| Gakuryu Ishii | (as Sogo Ishii) | ||
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| Gakuryu Ishii | (screenplay) (as Sogo Ishii) & | |
| Norio Kaminami | (screenplay) & | |
| Yoshinori Kobayashi | (screenplay) | |
Produced by | |||
| Kazuhiko Hasegawa | .... | executive producer | |
| Shirô Sasaki | .... | executive producer | |
| Banmei Takahashi | .... | producer | |
| Toyoji Yamane | .... | executive producer | |
Cinematography by | |||
| Masaki Tamura | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Jun'ichi Kikuchi | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Terumi Hosoishi | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Terumi Hosoishi | |||
Set Decoration by | |||
| Yoshikazu Furuya | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Midori Konuma | .... | makeup artist | |
Production Management | |||
| Toshihiro Ôsato | .... | production manager | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Akira Ogata | .... | assistant director | |
| Hideki Yonehara | .... | assistant director | |
Sound Department | |||
| Shin Fukuda | .... | sound recordist | |
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| Hiroahi Hayashida | .... | special modelling art | |
| Takashi Itô | .... | special visual effects | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Yuzuru Sato | .... | lighting technician | |
Other crew | |||
| Reiko Katsura | .... | dialect instructor | |
| Susumu Miyasaka | .... | planner | |
| Yoshijiro Nishimoto | .... | fight director | |
| Kame Ogasewara | .... | suspension effects | |
| Yukimitsu Sugano | .... | suspension effects | |
| Shosuke Taga | .... | planner | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- Art Theatre Guild
- Ascot Elite Home Entertainment (2007) (Germany) (DVD)
- New Yorker Films (1986) (USA) (subtitled)
- Nihon Eiga Satellite Broadcasting (2010) (Japan) (DVD)
- Pioneer LDC (2001) (Japan) (DVD)
- Liberty House (suspension effects)
- Fukushima Onkyo Company Ltd. sound
- Japan Action Club stunts
- Kyoto Costumes costumers
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106 min
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Germany:12 (DVD rating)
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The grandfather is named Yasukuni and has World War II flashbacks. The Yasukuni Jinja, or Yasukuni Shrine, in Japan, is dedicated to those who died in WWII.See more »
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This is a brilliant film which pushes its initial set-up -- middle-class Japanese family moves into new house and finds out there is not enough space -- just as far as it can possibly go. Along the way, every dark fear one might ever have harbored about family life is thoroughly confirmed. "The Crazy Family" had a successful 1984 theatrical run in the US (at least, it played in New York City for several months) but for some reason has never been released to any form of video in America. Some enterprising company should remedy this situation ASAP.