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7.5/10   40 votes
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Director:
Yôjirô Takita
Writers:
Nobuyuki Isshiki (writer)
Toshihiko Tani (story)
Release Date:
18 January 1989 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
Comedy about a family and their obsession for making money. | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Quite silly, also hard to read subtitles more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Takeshi Kaga ... Hajime Kimura
Kaori Momoi ... Noriko Kimura
Hiromi Iwasaki ... Terumi Kimura
Mitsunori Isaki ... Taro Kimura
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bengal ... Newspaper man
Akira Emoto ... Shinichi Amemiya
Kazuyo Ezaki ... House wife
Yukijirô Hotaru ... Dance teacher
Yutaka Ikejima ... Manager
Yoshi Kato ... Tokijiro
Akiko Kazami ... Mitsu Amemiya
Midori Kiuchi ... Sayuri Amemiya
Hiroyuki Konishi ... Masashi Takakura
Kiminobu Okumura ... Takekichi
Michiko Shimizu ... Sayaka Takakura
Yukiko Tachibana ... House wife
Naoto Takenaka ... Refuse collector
Jun Tatara ... Umekichi
Mari Torigoe ... Yasuyo
Imari Tsuji ... Takae
Kôichi Ueda ... Manager
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Yen Family
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Runtime:
Japan:113 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Melies more

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2 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Quite silly, also hard to read subtitles, 12 July 2001
4/10
Author: steve-balogh (balogh.steve@gmail.com) from Melbourne, Australia

I thought this film was quite silly yet rather sad. I hope that the "Yen" family does not exist too often in real life. I thought it was sad that the obsession with small change was more important to the family than the happiness of the son. And then to allow their 9 year old daughter to talk dirty to some pervert with a "lolita complex" was too much. But I suppose it was only a comedy.

I was also quite annoyed with the subtitles. Having fuzzy white text on a light background makes it very hard to read. I was watching the film on video, so I had the opportunity to rewind and freeze frame, but I should not have to do this. A good example of what subtitles should look like are those created by SBS in Australia on their foreign language programs which are a strongly contrasting yellow. They are much easier to read.

Overall I was not all that impressed by the film and gave it 4/10. I was hoping for more. I watched "Sada Abe" just before "Yen Family" so perhaps too high a standard had been set with which Yen could not compete.

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