The Family Game (1983) - full transcript
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).
TOHO COMPANY, LTD.
Distributed hy Japan Art Theater Ouild
Coproduced hy
Nikkatsu Film Studios,
New Century Producers & Japan Art Theater Ouild
Evoryone in the family is...
on the edge and very fussy!
THE FAMILY GAME
Younger Drother Shigeyuki NU MATA
Older Brother Shinichi NUMATA
Father Kosuke NUMATA
Mother Chikako NUMATA
What kind of pain is it?
I feel nauseous.
lt teels Iike a needle pricking.
Do you want antacid?
- It feels like a needle pricking.
- Take medicine then.
No, l got diarrhea last time.
Too painful to go to school?
Right. I wanna rest in bed
and recuperate.
What it it's appendicitis?
I think it's my pancreas.
Pancreas?
What do you mean? Pancreas?
Could you lay out my futon?
Don 't you have an important
test today?
It's only P. E. and stuff.
No hig deal.
That's good but...
Your new tutor will start tomorrow.
You need to he ready physically.
Teacher, may I borrow a pencil?
Shut up!
Who do you think you aro?
Idiot! l ' m out of lead. What else
am l supposed to do?
Stop it!
Stop! Stop!
Make them stop!
With your 0rades, you cen
prohahly go to Jingu High.
I can go to Seihu High.
What are you thinking?
Don 't think so.
I ' m not as stupid as you think.
If you ' re not, get good grades.
Dut you are hasing things
on my past grades.
What did you say? You hrat!
Tutor
Masaru YOSH l MOTO
Do the Numatas live over thcre?
Do the Numatas live here?
You know, the Numatas?
You must'vc bccn thirsty.
Lct mc gct you somcthinq elsc.
No, it's all right.
- PIea8e don 't hesitate.
- I ' m not at all.
- Wc can have winc latcr, too.
- OK.
So, anyway, do you have
any specific request for me?
Well , nothing really specific
as long as his grados go up.
We've hired many tutors, but no one
has really worked out.
So his grades didn 't go up?
That sums it up.
I ' m sure you ' ll find out
once you talk to Shigeyuki.
He's a trouhled child.
What do you mean hy trouhlcd?
Don 't scare me like that. . . Dad.
Shigeyuki, l ' m sure you know,
hut Mr. Yoshimoto is already here.
Your pancreas is OK today, right?
- Welcome hack.
- I ' m home.
Hey, Shinichi, this is
Shigeyuki 's tutor...
- I ' m Yoshimoto.
- Hello.
This one is pretty smart
unlike his little hrother.
Honey, not so loud!
He can hear you.
It's all right, it' ll motivate him.
- Unlike his little hrother. . .
- l entered...
Seibu High with excellent scores and
my parents arc extremely plcased.
Nice to meet you.
Likewise.
You 've got a cuto face.
It has lots of pimples.
They' re the symbol of youth.
You ' re trouhled, they say.
Entrance exem takers are
all trouhled.
You ' re funny.
That's gross.
It grosses me out too.
2 TEACH EH'S PET DORIS DAY
I hear you rank 9th from the hottom
in your class.
Something like that.
Who's on tho hottom then?
Hamamoto, the douhle-hagger.
- Is she that ugly?
- It makcs you laugh.
Huh. Ugly and stupid?
Right. Ugly and stupid.
So you are cute and stupid.
I don 't consider myself stupid.
I just don 't like to study.
I ' m callin0 you stupid for saying that
at a time like this.
- Don 't call me stupid so casually.
- Sorry.
All l heard ahout you
was your grades.
What's your hohhy, teacher?
Mine? To teach someone to learn.
That's obnoxious.
What's your hohhy then?
To learn to study.
What do you think of Shigoyuki?
He's kinda cute.
Cute? You ' re not selecting
a dog or cat!
He's just acting innocent tor today.
- Do you enjoy college life?
- I hardly go there.
- Don 't need to in the 7th year. Hight?
- I guess you could say that.
- Are you popular?
- Uh?
Are you popular with girls?
Oirls. ...?
Mayho l should say female students?
Not at all, hecause l
don 't have money.
Money, huh?
Dut you ' re good-looking.
Oood-looking?
- Is he?
- I am good-looking.
Do you do something to your hair?
Don 't touch your hair.
Dandruff will tall.
I ' m your son 's tutor.
Well, we' re counting on you.
- You seem to like hooze.
- Not particularly.
It doesn 't make me drunk.
Can we talk in my car?
That's not a 0ood idea.
You had too much wine.
Just tor a Iittle while.
Don 't worry ahout me.
l ' m used to walking.
I ' m not giving you a ride.
l just wanna talk to you in my car.
Oh, I see.
Hey, what's your tutor's
hirthday and hirth year?
Why don 't you ask him yourself?
It's so quiet.
Can I turn on the radio?
What tor?
Well , just in case there is
hreaking news or something.
It's ahout Shigeyuki .
Yes. . .?
- I want his grades to go up at all costs.
- l understand.
I ' Il pay you if they go up.
In eddition to the regular pay.
It's like a hase pay plus commission.
- Sounds good.
- Doesn 't it?
I think it's motivating for you too.
But, how exactly will you evaluate?
Will you look et his devietion score?
Or his points on tests?
Points vary depending on
the ditficulty of the tests.
What ahout his rank in his class?
Say, I ' ll pay you 1 0,000 yen
every time he goes up one rank.
30 ranks for 300,000 yen then?
That's right.
Do you really have
that kind ot money?
You cen 't say you don 't have it
when it's time to pay me.
I have a Certificate of Deposite
at tho post oftice.
I held it longer than six months.
So I can cancel it.
Mr. Numata...
You promise?
Yes.
I ' m giving you hack your test papers
trom the other day.
As usual I ' ll do it in the order of
the lowest to the highest scores.
Akemi Hamamoto, six points!
This is no time to goof around.
If you ' re too emherrassed
to show your face, study harder.
Oo hack to your seat.
You have no room to laugh!
Senuma, eight points.
Oo pick it up out there!
Iguchi, twelve points!
Yamamoto, sixteen points!
Numata, 26 points.
- You have e hole in your ass.
- Kameyama, 32 points.
What is it?
Watanaho, 35 points.
What do you want?
Come on. Let go of me.
Let go!
We know you like Hamamoto.
So we hrought her for you.
Hamamoto, kiss him.
Oive him a kiss.
Welcome home.
Didn 't you get your test hack today?
What's wrong?
Was it a had score?
It's always had.
Let me see it.
I want some coftee.
Let me see it later, right?
Coftee's ready. Come on out.
It's gonna get cold.
I ' m changing my underwear.
How come you didn 't do it
in the morning?
Won 't that make it too sweet?
Damn it! That basterd,
Tsuchiya, put salt in it.
Don 't be silly.
What a waste. Its instant coffee, but
I don 't want you wasting it like that.
Mom, l got 26 points on Japanese.
9th from the bottom.
" Define the tollowing words. "
One, "disposition. "
A tulip hulb?
Two, "gentle. "
A round greenhouse?
Three, " insidious. "
To secretly play rock, papor, scissors?
- Aren 't they funny?
- Funny?
How so?
What are you thinking?
Ahout you.
What ahout me are you
thinking ahout?
- What you ' re like.
- Nono of your husiness.
When is your next Japanese test?
Next week.
How far along are you
in the textbook?
Ah...
What's this?
Doodling silly stuff like this?
You ' re not Iistening during class.
All right.
Read this " Narrow Road to the Interior"
all the way through.
Then pick out every character and word
you don 't know and write them down.
Yes.
Teacher.
Could you read this a little?
- Where?
- Right here.
This?
Um. . . "The moths. . .and. . .daisies
are wolfarers. . .of. . .generators. . . "
"The months and days are wayfarers
of a hundred generations.
Those who hloat all their lives
on a hoat or reach their old age. . . "
I ' m motivated now.
DUSK, DUSK
DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK
DUSK
DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK. . .
DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK...
I ' m home.
Ah, welcome home.
Is he here?
They' re working.
Relatively quiet.
Yes.
Ah, welcome home.
- You ' re in the next room?
- Yes.
You ' re Shinichi?
Yes, I am.
Oood to meet you.
Koep up the good work.
DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK. . .
DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK...
l ' m exhausted.
DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK. . . DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK. .
. DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK. . . DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK...
What the heck is this?
I 've completely grasped the dusk.
Who told you to do this?
I just wanted to do it.
What good will it do?
It makes it easier to
kill horing time.
Boring or not is irrelovant.
You ' re taking an entrance exam and
you have no choice.
Shall I not take the exam?
Then. . . you ' re not going
to high school?
I am going to high school.
You 've got some 0uts to do this
in my presence.
You can 't do this only with guts.
Don 't mcss with me.
I don 't mean to.
I told you to write down the characters
and words that you don 't know.
What the hell is this
" Dusk, dusk, dusk? "
What do you think you ' re doing?
You make me look had.
Don 't mcss with me.
- What happened?
- Oh, nothing.
Mom, my nose's hleeding.
Oh, no! Why is your nose hleeding?
Mayhe he got overexcited.
I ' m thirsty.
- Shigeyuki, ere you all right?
- Ma'am, this water is bad.
Too much chlorine.
You 'd hetter watch out.
Could somethin0 have
happened at dusk?
No, it's nothing like that.
He just wants to he annoying.
I wonder if he's heen doing
this kind of thing tor a while.
Most likely.
- No wonder his gredes are had.
- Hight. No wonder.
Dut l don 't think...
that he was horn stupid.
That's what all parents say.
I think he was a 7th grader when
he stayed up all night to reed a hook
on how a roller coaster works,
and he memorized it all
hy the next morning.
He can enter theme parks
with tlying colors.
Ah, stay down.
So, did it hurt?
Yes.
You don 't wanna he punched, right?
I don 't like it.
I wanna help you. . .somehow.
You hear me?
Do what I told you to do earlier.
Hememher what it is?
Yes.
I ' m gonna keep an eye on you.
If you goof around again,
I ' ll do it again.
- His nose was hleeding?
- That's right.
- I was shocked at first.
- Mayhe it's all right.
You ' re drunk. So you can sey
whatever you want.
Mayhe strict 0uidance is
what he noeds.
- I ' ll go look.
- PIease, don 't.
They' re nice and quiet now.
Yo.
Yo.
Yo.
Yo.
Listen. Your grades will go up
as Iong as you do what l toll you.
Don 't you want your grades
to go up?
Yes, of course.
If you ' re not done hy the next time,
I ' ll punch you again.
Nose hleeding doesn 't hother me,
'cause I watch pro wrestling a lot.
Undorstand?
Yes.
Dut please he gentle
as much as you can.
- Shinichi, sorry to have disturhed you.
- Oh, no.
Oood joh.
- Thank you very much.
- Sure.
- I ' m 0oing.
- Would you like to stay for dinner?
No, not today.
Is your hushand taking a hath?
He seems to he very drunk today.
Sorry he harged in.
As long as it's not always.
I ' ll let you know if it hothers me.
PIease don 't get in a fight.
With your hushand?
How would l?
I have to go.
We' re having sukiyaki tor dinner.
Well, I have some thinking
to do today.
So, ploase excuse me.
Thank you.
- Um. . .
- Yes?
- Oive my regards to your hushand.
- l will.
Stop there and translate from
" He could sing and dance. "
Now, let's ask Mr. Tsuchiya
to read next.
Next, Mr. Numata.
Oood. Next, Mr. Shihata, ploase.
Yamashita, why are you Iaughing?
Oo on.
What?
Oood afternoon.
Oood afternoon.
You went shopping?
Yes, just around the corner.
I went shopping too.
Oh, I see.
- Welcome.
- Um. . . is Mieko in?
Ah, Mieko?
Hello, Mieko?
You have a visitor.
What's up, Numata?
Neod something?
- Cood evening.
- Good evening.
Ding-donq. Dinq-donq. Dad! Mom!
Open thc door!
Ifyou can 't comc to thc door for
a special reason, l'Il stay out Iatc!
This is my dad and mom.
This is my classmate, Mr. Numata.
Hi, I ' m Numata.
Mako yourselt at home.
Isn 't this a hright and cute room?
Yeah.
- Oo ahead and sit down.
- Whero?
Hight here. Hore.
- What a nice view to see every day.
- It's so ordinary and horing!
Anyway, what in the world
did you comc here for?
I can 't helievo you came!
I always wanted to have
a chat with you just once.
Mayho l should interview you.
But, you know, doesn 't it feel like you and I
belong to totally different worlds?
Different worlds?
We' re classmates.
That's true but...
You 're funny, Numata.
You totally heat me.
Mr. Numata, do you have sihlings?
- I have a younger hrother.
- I seo.
- What grade is he in?
- 9th grade.
9th grade? Must be tough
with the entrance exam.
Yeah.
He's usually home by now.
I wonder he's fighting or something.
- Does he ever tight?
I hear some kids hully Shigeyuki.
Is that so?
It'd he a different story if his grades
were the highest or second hest.
I wonder why he's hullied
when his grades are had.
Ah! Shinichi.
Say. . . Did you see Shigeyuki
on your way home?
I did.
Where?
At the bookstore.
He was really into it.
So l didn 't speak to him.
Dookstore?
I...
That's fine, hut. . .
ploase don 't get rough with him.
Enjoying it?
You hate me so much?
I don 't know yet.
Excuse me, sir,
pleaso pay tor the hook.
- How much?
- 480 yen.
All right.
- Cive me change.
- Change? OK.
Hold on a second.
Stay thero. Don 't move.
Don 't move. . .?
What happened?
Shigeyuki, what happened?
You suro you did it?
Hey.
You 'd hetter cut it out.
- Here you go.
- Thanks.
- Take your time.
- Thanks.
Now eat!
Isn 't it awfully quiet next door?
Maybe he's heing ohedient.
What a relief.
Shinichi, you ' re a freshman
hut don 't relax. Study hard.
Otherwise, l ' ll get in trouhle
with your father.
I know.
Osawa.
- Your name!
- Senuma.
Tsuchiya.
Ouch...
Stop! Stop it!
Open the door!
Didn 't they make a movie
out of this?
Hight. I went to see it
with your father.
Who was in it?
Let's see. . . Audrey Hophurn.
What is she like?
Is sho fat or skinny?
She's vory skinny.
- Do you want me to play something?
- What about this?
" I Could Have
Danced All Night. "
Ah, you ' ro early today.
The other son is home early too.
- What's the matter, Shinichi?
- No more music.
What were you playing?
This. " I Could Have
Danced All Night. "
There's no way you can
dance all night.
- You need to study all night.
- In million years.
Either wash your hands or
change your clothes.
- Say, Mom. . .
- What is it?
When was your tirst period?
In elementary school or
middle school?
- Why are you asking out of the hlue?
- Do you still have it?
Why wouldn 't l?
Do you use tampons or napkins?
I can 't tell when you ' re
on your period.
You ' re supposed to act differently,
like you get cranky.
But you never change.
Have you trained yourself?
- Don 't ask stupid questions.
- Doesn 't the hleeding hurt?
That's enough!
Hey, you 're sneaky.
You ' re always eavesdropping.
So, tell me, Mom, when wes
your first period?
So, tell me Shigeyuki,
when did your puhic hair grow?
Isn 't it kind of lonely
not having Mr. Yoshimoto here?
It'd be exhausting
it he were here all the time.
Are you getting along hetter now?
How do you like him
as a teacher?
You ' re always sleeping
at home Iately.
It's tough to he a freshman
in high school. Hight?
Hey, is that true?
Not really.
- Well, shall we go?
- Go where?
Where we don 't have to whisper.
- You mean our car?
- That's right.
- You ' re not taking a bath?
- Don 't worry. Let's just go.
Hold on a minute.
Don 't tell me you ' re putting on
your make up.
It's heen so Iong since
we came hore togethor.
That's true.
Wanna tell me something
ahout the tutor?
I don 't know how defiant
Shigeyuki is, hut...
it looks excessivo.
You haven 't seen it.
I wanna see it just once.
Just come home earlier.
Come on.
I can 't help it.
lt's not like I ' m playing.
Unless I work, we can 't send
Shinichi to college or...
Shigeyuki to high school.
We couldn 't hire a tutor.
But I ' m the onc who has to...
That's your joh.
It would 've heen easier
it they were more good-natured.
They are good.
Shinichi made it to Seibu High.
Other wives havo it a lot easier.
Why do we have to sacrifice so much
for the sako of our children?
I wish l had them much later
atter I got marricd.
We had no choice.
You got pregnant.
I wish I could go back to that day.
That sounds kinky.
I wish I could learn jazz dance.
DAY DU:
Yutaka TSUCHIYA Yasuko Kl KUCH I
Wake up!
Hey!
Hey!
Still half asleep!
Shut up, Yasuko Kikuchi!
What them?
What makes you think I like Kikuchi?
What gives you right to say
I like Kikuchi?
You hastard!
- Idiot!
- Who do you think you are?
Hurry up!
- Here you go.
- Thank you.
- Thank you for the other day.
- Don 't mention it.
You ' re the first one to greet me,
since we moved to this community.
Oh, is that so?
You know, there are a lot of people here
who work in a har and nightclub.
Um. . . this position is not
exactly comfortahle.
Is it all right if I move my chair?
Sure, please.
Thank you.
Can I ask your opinion on something?
Sure, go ahead.
To tell you the truth,
my hushand 's father is dying.
You mean. . . now?
Well. . . he's heen hed-ridden,
and. . . he's quito old.
So we think he won 't last
much longer.
It must he hard.
So you ' re living with him?
Right.
And. . . well...
When he passes away, how would we
get his hody out ot the huilding?
The elevator is too small for a coftin.
I ' m not sure...
The rooms are too small to hold
a wake, let alone a funeral.
We could hold a hig one
at my parents' house.
It's socielly awkward to hold a funeral
tor my in-law at my parcnts' house.
What in the world happened?
What shall l do?
Well...
- What should I do?
- Damn it!
Sorry, hut my son 's home.
Could you care ahout your neighhors,
and not just about your family?
I ' m pissed oft.
Let me see what I can do.
I ' ll ask someone who's with
the association here.
- You really will?
- Yes.
- You promise?
- Mom, lay out my tuton.
- I ' ll let you know.
- How?
Why don 't you come again?
When? What time should I come?
- Whenever is convenient for you.
- Please! Lay out my futon!
- Thank you, Ma'am.
- Ploase! Hurry!
PIease hurry up!
Please hurry and lay out my futon!
I ' m sorry l ' m late!
- Shigeyuki 's in hed.
- I seo.
His nosehleed has stopped.
- What happened?
- He must've heen in a fight.
He lost. All right.
Excuse me...
Yo!
Yo!
So you lost in a tight?
I didn 't lose.
You ' ro down in bed.
There wore tive of them.
Hmm. I see.
OK. Let's get started
with studying.
I have to?
Of course. Don 't play dumh.
Once we' re done studying,
l ' ll teach you how to tight.
AIl right?
Hamamoto, six points.
Yamamoto, twelve points.
Senuma, twenty points.
Osawa, 22 points.
Numata's grades
havo heen going up.
- Sort of.
- I wonder why.
How would I know?
Kameyama, 35 points.
You studied hard on your own too.
Thanks to you.
I ' m sure that the English test
l ' ll get hack tomorrow will he good too.
What's up?
You ' re taking a tough stand.
There's someone who hates to see
my grades go up. So, it's fun.
Who is it?
Hey, Shigeyuki, keep it up.
I guess tho new tutor has worked out.
We don 't know tor sure yet.
Dut his complexion is hetter
these days.
Hey, Shinichi.
I hear you haven 't heen to school.
Now Shigeyuki 's doing a good joh
and you ' re slacking otf.
It's Shi0eyuki 's turn to study hard
tor my sake too.
Doth you and Shigeyuki
hould study hard.
Yes. I ' ll come visit. . .
See you soon!
Yes. All right. Take caro. Byo now.
What could it he?
Wow, it's heavy.
Who was it?
It says it's tor Shigeyuki.
What is this?
- What is it?
- Tsuchiya hrought it.
Why don 't you open it?
- What a nice present.
- He doesn 't give up.
He's harassing you?
- Doesn 't this give you an erection?
- No way. It doesn 't.
- It works for me.
- I don 't like women.
You don 't like women?
I ' ll take this then.
Oet startod with your work.
What are you doing?
Huh? You did get an erection
trom that magazine.
- What the heck. ..
- Say, " No, I didn 't. "
- No, l didn 't.
- Oet started.
- Welcome.
- Hello.
You want Mieko?
- Hello, Mieko.
- Numa. . .?
- Numata.
Mr. Numata's here.
Hi, Numata. Come on in.
Shihata, Numata is hcre.
- Oh, hello.
- Hello.
- Please come in.
- Come on in.
What's this?
DAY DU:
Shigeyuki NU MATA Yuriko TAOAMI
Numata.
Say... -
What is it?
You sure get bullied a lot.
- Dy whom?
- Tsuchiya.
He doesn 't liko me.
You ' re so dumh. If that's the case,
you should kiss up to him.
How?
Like by making him feel like
he's respected.
A guy like him?
Why do l have to do such a thing?
It's much better than heing bullied?
Tagami, don 't you have a girl
you hate?
I sure do.
In our class?
Yes.
Who is it?
Come on. Tell mc.
Masami Kimura.
'Cause she's protty?
She's ahsolutely obnoxious.
Oirls are scary.
I had no idea you hated her so much.
You don 't show it.
You can do the same to Tsuchiya.
You just need to grit your teeth
and suck up to him a Iittle.
You 're hein0 too true
to your feolings.
You know what?
I perform occult stuff on her
at home.
Occult?
So that she won 't flirt with
the person I have crush on.
When l comc to school evcryday...
and see how its working little
hy Iittle, I get so excited.
So you have crush on someone
in our class?
Sort of.
Who is it?
You ' re so childish.
Numata...
I love you.
Tsuchiya told you to do this.
Why do you think that way?
Oood morning.
Oood morning.
You ' re 0etting full of yourself letely
just because your grades are up.
It's none of your husinoss.
Dy the way, stop harassing me.
What's up with that magazine?
You pointed out my cheating
the other day!
It's your fault.
Some things should he kept quiet.
Hey, are you sure
you ' ro alone today?
Where are your cronies?
Shut up. They follow me and
back me up on their own.
I can take you on hy myselt.
You 're so annoying.
What the heck?
l hato you too.
Your grades may he up, hut l don 't
want you in Seibu High with me.
I ' m applying for Jingu High.
As Iong as you know your place.
Don 't come stink up Seihu High.
- What's your prohlem?
- You hastard.
Wanna fight?
You hastard.
Why would l wanne go to Seihu High
with you? Jingu High is just fine.
- Wenna take a hreak?
- Yes.
Your mom has started to hring in
the snacks pretty late.
She doesn 't have to worry ahout
what's going on anymore.
- You ' re too optimistic.
- Sorry.
- Teacher.
- What?
Do you havo a girlfriend?
- I do.
- Is she pretty?
Ot course she is.
- Does she go to Jonan College too?
- No.
Are you going to marry her?
Oh, thank you.
Looks like perfect timing!
So pretty...
Move over the notebook!
Oo ahead and eat!
His grades have gone up quite a hit.
Thank you.
His attitude in class hasn 't changed.
Does he go to cram school?
He has a tutor.
Really? He must he really good.
He's not endorsed hy the Ministry
of Education like you, though.
With the way he's making progress
he can aim for Seihu High.
Well, the thing is. . .
he says he's tine with Jingu High.
He' ll definitely get into Jingu High.
Mayhe he's not confident enough?
He doesn 't want to go to Seihu High
no matter what.
I see. That's fine, if he's
so determined.
Let's see. . . Jingu High.
That's it. Thank you.
Dut, my hushand...
What is it?
I wonder if we should say Seibu High.
What is this?
Didn 't you all talk about this?
Right, hut...
What's this sunny-side up?
What?
What's up with this yolk?
What's wrong with the yolk?
It's too hard to do "Tsuck Tsuck. "
"Tsuck-T suck? "
You know l like
sucking the yolk out.
You like doing that?
We've lived together
for a few decades now.
You should know what I like
and what I don 't hy now.
Sorry, I wasn 't aware of it.
I can 't helieve you guys picked
Jingu High without talking to me.
We talked ahout it last night.
It has to ho Seihu High.
- He completely rejects Seihu High.
- It doesn 't make sense.
Seihu ranks higher than Jingu and...
now his grades are good enough
for Seihu High.
Why not aim tor Seihu?
Of course I said that to him too.
You just can 't do a good joh.
You ' re too lenient with him.
Why don 't you talk to him thcn?
You know what?
If I get involved too much, it could
turn into a murder case with a hat.
That's why I ' m delegating this issue
to you and the tutor.
Why did you have your mother go?
My homeroom teacher is a nag.
You idiot, it's ahout your future.
Why do you use your mother
to decido your futuro?
- I don 't like to talk to my teacher.
- So what?
You haven 't changed a hit.
What are you doin0?
Sit down.
Why didn 't you choose Seihu High?
- I ' m fine with Jingu High.
- " Fine"?
No one's preparing for the exam
with such an attitude.
You ' re supposed to he studying to
enter the school you wanna go to.
You and I have heen working hard
till your nose bleeds. Right?
Right.
What's the matter?
Where are you going?
What happened?
Say, Shinichi,
where do you think they went?
Why would I know?
I ' m not spying on Shigeyuki.
Why did you choose Jingu High?
I like Jingu High.
Switch to Seihu High. All right?
What's wrong with Jingu High?
It's hetter to he on top at Jingu
than be on the bottom at Seihu.
Why not he on top
at Seihu then, huh?
Hi, I ' m Tsuchiya.
Shigeyuki, Mr. Tsuchiya's here.
- Tsuchiya's here?
- Yes.
- Tell him I ' m not here.
- Why?
- Is he alone?
- I don 't know.
So, you are Tsuchiya?
- Are you alone?
- Yes.
- Are you sure you ' re elone?
- Yes.
- Who are you?
- l ' m a tutor.
- What do you want, Tsuchiye?
- Yo.
What is it?
I wanna talk to you.
Can we step outside?
Sure.
That Tsuchiya guy looks weak.
I thought he might he
a typical bully.
Why is he scared ot guy like him?
Tsuchiya and Shigeyuki have heen
in tho same class since grade school.
When the road expansion forced
us to movc,
they wound up in the same school.
That's the whole reason
he doesn 't like him?
They hoth know eech others deepest
secrets and emharrassing moments.
What are those moments?
Well...
Tell me. For examplc?
One of them is called the shit
pollution in the classroom case.
What the heck is the
"shit pollution case" ?
Well, he shit in the room
during class.
- Wait, you meen he pooped?
- Yes.
Hc had a touch of diarrhca
that morning.
It qot worsc durinq class.
He rclcd his abdomcn, squcczed
his butt...anythinq to distract himsclf.
Hc torc up his book and stulfed his mouth,
but hc could hear thc slushy sound
from his abdomcn.
Hc tricd his bcst to hold it
until thc class was ovcr.
But his tcachcr callcd his name.
That's when thc accidcnt happcncd.
Thc wholc class was in uproar.
Evcryonc startcd scrcaminq.
Thc tcachcr tricd to scnd him
to a bathroom, but...
he couldn 't walk well hecause he had
already pooped in his pants.
Both Tsuchiya and he remember
that incident very vividly.
Would something like thet effect
his entrance exams?
There are many incidents like that.
That's so silly, you know.
PIcasc don 't tcll him I told you this.
- Ilyou tcll him, l'II bc in danqcr.
- O/ course l'll tcll him.
- Come on, Mr. Yoshimoto.
- O/ course l'll tcll him.
- Lct's not.
- l won 't.
You promisc?
Don 't tell the others
that you heat me up.
Why would l?
- Hey. . .
- Huh?
How come your grades are up?
That guy is your tutor?
Sort of.
He's awesome, isn 't he?
He goes to Jonan University.
Not a hig deal.
Jonan University?
Not a big deal then.
- You ' re going to a cram school?
- Yeah, I am.
You ' re still into that hockey game?
Sort of. Your dad used to
play hockey, right?
Yeah, hut l ' m not interested
in hockey.
I onvy you.
My dad just played tahle tennis.
Who cares?
At loast he's rich.
Today is the last dey to suhmit
the high school ot his choice.
He hasn 't suhmitted yet.
How can that he? He said
he was going to Seihu High.
Right. I thought so too.
But he hasn 't suhmitted it yet.
You have no choice hut to go then.
I 'd rather not go. That's why I ' m
asking you to go.
I heg you.
If we don 't do anything,
he' ll end up in Jingu High.
I don 't know why he can 't even
take care of such a simple thing.
Please. I ' m begging you.
Please go to the school to help
Shigeyuki talk to his teacher.
- Mother.
- Yes?
Do you have soy milk?
Sure.
Here you go.
Please help.
If we don 't take care of this now,
I wonder what my hushand will say.
Is there a Mr. Ohno?
Mr. Ohno?
Here.
May l have a moment with you?
Numate's parents sent me
to meet with you.
What tor?
To change the school of his choice.
That's a prohlem.
Do you have power ot attorney?
What do you mean?
I 've already talked to him ahout it.
- We can 't change it any more?
- They didn 't tell you?
Only he himself or his parents
can submit the request.
Then. . . please call him in.
- What?
- Himself.
I ' m his teacher.
Well, thin0s happened and
he changed his mind.
Changed? How?
Like l said, he changed his mind.
You ' Il see when you ask him...
Dut l ' m his teacher and
I soe him everyday.
- Of course.
- Yes.
So, you ' Il see
if you call him in now.
But I see him everyday
and talk to him.
You ' ll find out if you call him in.
- Who' re you? Why should I call him?
- lsn 't he here?
I ' ll talk to him directly.
You don 't need to get involved.
- Isn 't he here?
- He is, it's lunch recess.
Then, if you could bring him in.
Let's go ahead and do that.
Do I have to do that?
- Do I have to? Do I?
- Please hring him in.
- Totsuke. Totsuka.
- Yes.
Oo get Numata.
I ' m in the middle of having lunch.
I ' ll be done soon.
Ot course.
Mr. Ohno.
Here.
He will tell you directly
the name of the school ot his choice.
What's your choice?
- It's Seibu High.
- What?
- It's Seibu High.
- You said Jingu...
You heard what he said.
Thank you.
Excuse us.
I passcd the exam lor Scibu Hiqh.
Tsuchiya will qo to a private school.
We 'rc qoinq separatc ways.
How was it? You passed, right?
You didn 't pass?
Come on!
You pessed! All right!
I ' m so happy for you!
Shigeyuki! lt's a 0ood thing
you went for Soihu High!
Tsuchiya is going to a private school.
I ' m so happy for you!
We need to call your dad!
Shinichi, he passed!
I ' m so happy for you!
Well.
Shigeyuki, you should thank
Mr. Yoshimoto.
Hey, we can 't start eating.
Thanks.
Sure.
What? Is that all?
- Let's start eating.
- Yes.
Why don 't we toast?
- Shigeyuki, congratulations.
- Congratulations.
- Congratulations!
Please go ahead and eat.
It certainly cost me a lot, hut
Mr. Yoshimoto did a great joh.
Not really.
You even went all the way to school.
Thank you so much.
Doth our kids were horn smart.
Say, Shinichi, it's your turn next.
Right?
I hear you 're skipping school lately.
That's not good at all .
You should learn from
Shigeyuki 's example.
We're celehrating Shigeyuki 's success.
We' ll discuss Shinichi some other time.
That's not how it works.
We rarely get together like this
to talk.
But still...
- Mr. Yoshimoto.
- Yes?
Could you tutor Shinichi this time?
No. A Jonan student wouldn 't he ahle
to teach a national university candidate.
Oh, roally?
Jonan University is that interior?
Honey!
Listen, Shinichi.
I 've heen focusing on Shigeyuki
for a long time, hut...
I ' m going to start being strict with
you from now on. All right?
So sorry.
- Help me!
- Here you go.
Study hard, OK?
I ' m counting on you.
I don 't feel like going to
a national university.
What will you do
if you don 't go?
I may not go to any college.
Come on. Don 't say that in front of
Shigeyuki. That's not good. Please.
I 've got so many things
I wanna do.
And I can do those without
going to college.
If you don 't, whet will your mother
and l do? Huh?
You ' ll manage, 'cause you guys
are a couple, you know.
What them?
What kind ot attitudo is that?
What's his prohlem?
Just let it go for now. Today were
celebrating Shigeyuki 's success.
How come you ' re so calm?
What is this?
I see. Only l didn 't know ahout this.
Isn 't that right?
Hey, Shinichi, you already told Mom
that you weren 't going to college?
I already told her.
What's going on? How come you kept
something this important secret?
Decause you ' re never there
to listen to what l have to say.
I listen to you in our car.
But you comc homc late,
and I thought I could wait till we were
dono dealing with Shigeyuki 's exam.
That's why I didn 't mention it to you.
I ' m even thinking ahout quitting
Seibu High.
Why do you have to quit?
You managed to get in and now
you 're gonna quit haltway?
Seibu High is a prep school to go to
a national university. Don 't you get it?
I have my own thoughts!
You don 't think!
I ' m the onc who thinks for you!
Your attitude could lead
to a murder case with a hat!
Oh, really? Then go ahead
and hit me with a bat! You idiot!
Cut it out.
What have you hoen doing?
What have you hoen doing?
What are you doin0?
Cut it out!
Honey, are you OK?
Look what you 've dono to him!
- There's a cockroach over there.
- Cockroach?!
- Shinichi.
- What?
Ow...
Oood bye now.
Let's see. . . Number 11 .
Numata.
Numata!
Yes.
Read it.
What's going on?
I wonder it something happened.
Shinichi . Shigeyuki.
Do you want a snack?
Don 't you think the helicopter is
unusually loud today?
Something spccial ahout today?
Hello?
Can you hear me?
I guess you guys are hoth asleep?
Shigeyuki.
Shinichi.
You two are sleeping so well.
I wonder it something happened.
I'm exhausted.
Yusaku MATSUDA
I'm exhausted.
Yusaku MATSUDA
Whet the heck is this?
Juzo lTAMl Saori YU
Kl Whet the heck is this?
Juzo lTAMl
Saori YU Kl
Juzo lTAMl Saori YU Kl I've
completely grasped the dusk.
I've completely
grasped the dusk.
Icbirota MIYAKAWA Junicbi TSUJITA
I've completely grasped the dusk.
Icbirota MIYAKAWA
Junicbi TSUJITA
lcbirota MIYAKAWA Junicbi
TSUJITA Who told you to do this?
Who told you to do this?
Yoneko MATSUKANE Jun
TOGAWA Who told you to do this?
Yoneko MATSUKANE
Jun TOGAWA
Yoneko MATSUKANE Jun
TOGAWA Numate, 20 points!
Numate, 20 points!
Kaori OKAMOTO Kazuko
SHIRAKAWA Numate, 20 points!
Kaori OKAMOTO
Kazuko SHIRAKAWA
- What's this sunny-side up?
- What?
It's too hard to do
"Tsuck Tsuck."
Judging from your
school record,
you can probably go
to Jingu High.
I can go to Seibu High.
- Open the doorl
-Open the doorl
Say, l'll pey you 10, 000 yen
every time he goes up one renk.
- 30 ranks for 300, 000 yen then ?
- That's right.
Mr. Numata, it's a promise ?
Don 't tell me you're putting on
your make up.
I'm calling you stupid for
saying that at e time like this.
Written and directed by
Yosbimitsu MORITA
Distributed hy Japan Art Theater Ouild
Coproduced hy
Nikkatsu Film Studios,
New Century Producers & Japan Art Theater Ouild
Evoryone in the family is...
on the edge and very fussy!
THE FAMILY GAME
Younger Drother Shigeyuki NU MATA
Older Brother Shinichi NUMATA
Father Kosuke NUMATA
Mother Chikako NUMATA
What kind of pain is it?
I feel nauseous.
lt teels Iike a needle pricking.
Do you want antacid?
- It feels like a needle pricking.
- Take medicine then.
No, l got diarrhea last time.
Too painful to go to school?
Right. I wanna rest in bed
and recuperate.
What it it's appendicitis?
I think it's my pancreas.
Pancreas?
What do you mean? Pancreas?
Could you lay out my futon?
Don 't you have an important
test today?
It's only P. E. and stuff.
No hig deal.
That's good but...
Your new tutor will start tomorrow.
You need to he ready physically.
Teacher, may I borrow a pencil?
Shut up!
Who do you think you aro?
Idiot! l ' m out of lead. What else
am l supposed to do?
Stop it!
Stop! Stop!
Make them stop!
With your 0rades, you cen
prohahly go to Jingu High.
I can go to Seihu High.
What are you thinking?
Don 't think so.
I ' m not as stupid as you think.
If you ' re not, get good grades.
Dut you are hasing things
on my past grades.
What did you say? You hrat!
Tutor
Masaru YOSH l MOTO
Do the Numatas live over thcre?
Do the Numatas live here?
You know, the Numatas?
You must'vc bccn thirsty.
Lct mc gct you somcthinq elsc.
No, it's all right.
- PIea8e don 't hesitate.
- I ' m not at all.
- Wc can have winc latcr, too.
- OK.
So, anyway, do you have
any specific request for me?
Well , nothing really specific
as long as his grados go up.
We've hired many tutors, but no one
has really worked out.
So his grades didn 't go up?
That sums it up.
I ' m sure you ' ll find out
once you talk to Shigeyuki.
He's a trouhled child.
What do you mean hy trouhlcd?
Don 't scare me like that. . . Dad.
Shigeyuki, l ' m sure you know,
hut Mr. Yoshimoto is already here.
Your pancreas is OK today, right?
- Welcome hack.
- I ' m home.
Hey, Shinichi, this is
Shigeyuki 's tutor...
- I ' m Yoshimoto.
- Hello.
This one is pretty smart
unlike his little hrother.
Honey, not so loud!
He can hear you.
It's all right, it' ll motivate him.
- Unlike his little hrother. . .
- l entered...
Seibu High with excellent scores and
my parents arc extremely plcased.
Nice to meet you.
Likewise.
You 've got a cuto face.
It has lots of pimples.
They' re the symbol of youth.
You ' re trouhled, they say.
Entrance exem takers are
all trouhled.
You ' re funny.
That's gross.
It grosses me out too.
2 TEACH EH'S PET DORIS DAY
I hear you rank 9th from the hottom
in your class.
Something like that.
Who's on tho hottom then?
Hamamoto, the douhle-hagger.
- Is she that ugly?
- It makcs you laugh.
Huh. Ugly and stupid?
Right. Ugly and stupid.
So you are cute and stupid.
I don 't consider myself stupid.
I just don 't like to study.
I ' m callin0 you stupid for saying that
at a time like this.
- Don 't call me stupid so casually.
- Sorry.
All l heard ahout you
was your grades.
What's your hohhy, teacher?
Mine? To teach someone to learn.
That's obnoxious.
What's your hohhy then?
To learn to study.
What do you think of Shigoyuki?
He's kinda cute.
Cute? You ' re not selecting
a dog or cat!
He's just acting innocent tor today.
- Do you enjoy college life?
- I hardly go there.
- Don 't need to in the 7th year. Hight?
- I guess you could say that.
- Are you popular?
- Uh?
Are you popular with girls?
Oirls. ...?
Mayho l should say female students?
Not at all, hecause l
don 't have money.
Money, huh?
Dut you ' re good-looking.
Oood-looking?
- Is he?
- I am good-looking.
Do you do something to your hair?
Don 't touch your hair.
Dandruff will tall.
I ' m your son 's tutor.
Well, we' re counting on you.
- You seem to like hooze.
- Not particularly.
It doesn 't make me drunk.
Can we talk in my car?
That's not a 0ood idea.
You had too much wine.
Just tor a Iittle while.
Don 't worry ahout me.
l ' m used to walking.
I ' m not giving you a ride.
l just wanna talk to you in my car.
Oh, I see.
Hey, what's your tutor's
hirthday and hirth year?
Why don 't you ask him yourself?
It's so quiet.
Can I turn on the radio?
What tor?
Well , just in case there is
hreaking news or something.
It's ahout Shigeyuki .
Yes. . .?
- I want his grades to go up at all costs.
- l understand.
I ' Il pay you if they go up.
In eddition to the regular pay.
It's like a hase pay plus commission.
- Sounds good.
- Doesn 't it?
I think it's motivating for you too.
But, how exactly will you evaluate?
Will you look et his devietion score?
Or his points on tests?
Points vary depending on
the ditficulty of the tests.
What ahout his rank in his class?
Say, I ' ll pay you 1 0,000 yen
every time he goes up one rank.
30 ranks for 300,000 yen then?
That's right.
Do you really have
that kind ot money?
You cen 't say you don 't have it
when it's time to pay me.
I have a Certificate of Deposite
at tho post oftice.
I held it longer than six months.
So I can cancel it.
Mr. Numata...
You promise?
Yes.
I ' m giving you hack your test papers
trom the other day.
As usual I ' ll do it in the order of
the lowest to the highest scores.
Akemi Hamamoto, six points!
This is no time to goof around.
If you ' re too emherrassed
to show your face, study harder.
Oo hack to your seat.
You have no room to laugh!
Senuma, eight points.
Oo pick it up out there!
Iguchi, twelve points!
Yamamoto, sixteen points!
Numata, 26 points.
- You have e hole in your ass.
- Kameyama, 32 points.
What is it?
Watanaho, 35 points.
What do you want?
Come on. Let go of me.
Let go!
We know you like Hamamoto.
So we hrought her for you.
Hamamoto, kiss him.
Oive him a kiss.
Welcome home.
Didn 't you get your test hack today?
What's wrong?
Was it a had score?
It's always had.
Let me see it.
I want some coftee.
Let me see it later, right?
Coftee's ready. Come on out.
It's gonna get cold.
I ' m changing my underwear.
How come you didn 't do it
in the morning?
Won 't that make it too sweet?
Damn it! That basterd,
Tsuchiya, put salt in it.
Don 't be silly.
What a waste. Its instant coffee, but
I don 't want you wasting it like that.
Mom, l got 26 points on Japanese.
9th from the bottom.
" Define the tollowing words. "
One, "disposition. "
A tulip hulb?
Two, "gentle. "
A round greenhouse?
Three, " insidious. "
To secretly play rock, papor, scissors?
- Aren 't they funny?
- Funny?
How so?
What are you thinking?
Ahout you.
What ahout me are you
thinking ahout?
- What you ' re like.
- Nono of your husiness.
When is your next Japanese test?
Next week.
How far along are you
in the textbook?
Ah...
What's this?
Doodling silly stuff like this?
You ' re not Iistening during class.
All right.
Read this " Narrow Road to the Interior"
all the way through.
Then pick out every character and word
you don 't know and write them down.
Yes.
Teacher.
Could you read this a little?
- Where?
- Right here.
This?
Um. . . "The moths. . .and. . .daisies
are wolfarers. . .of. . .generators. . . "
"The months and days are wayfarers
of a hundred generations.
Those who hloat all their lives
on a hoat or reach their old age. . . "
I ' m motivated now.
DUSK, DUSK
DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK
DUSK
DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK. . .
DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK...
I ' m home.
Ah, welcome home.
Is he here?
They' re working.
Relatively quiet.
Yes.
Ah, welcome home.
- You ' re in the next room?
- Yes.
You ' re Shinichi?
Yes, I am.
Oood to meet you.
Koep up the good work.
DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK. . .
DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK...
l ' m exhausted.
DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK. . . DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK. .
. DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK. . . DUSK, DUSK, DUSK, DUSK...
What the heck is this?
I 've completely grasped the dusk.
Who told you to do this?
I just wanted to do it.
What good will it do?
It makes it easier to
kill horing time.
Boring or not is irrelovant.
You ' re taking an entrance exam and
you have no choice.
Shall I not take the exam?
Then. . . you ' re not going
to high school?
I am going to high school.
You 've got some 0uts to do this
in my presence.
You can 't do this only with guts.
Don 't mcss with me.
I don 't mean to.
I told you to write down the characters
and words that you don 't know.
What the hell is this
" Dusk, dusk, dusk? "
What do you think you ' re doing?
You make me look had.
Don 't mcss with me.
- What happened?
- Oh, nothing.
Mom, my nose's hleeding.
Oh, no! Why is your nose hleeding?
Mayhe he got overexcited.
I ' m thirsty.
- Shigeyuki, ere you all right?
- Ma'am, this water is bad.
Too much chlorine.
You 'd hetter watch out.
Could somethin0 have
happened at dusk?
No, it's nothing like that.
He just wants to he annoying.
I wonder if he's heen doing
this kind of thing tor a while.
Most likely.
- No wonder his gredes are had.
- Hight. No wonder.
Dut l don 't think...
that he was horn stupid.
That's what all parents say.
I think he was a 7th grader when
he stayed up all night to reed a hook
on how a roller coaster works,
and he memorized it all
hy the next morning.
He can enter theme parks
with tlying colors.
Ah, stay down.
So, did it hurt?
Yes.
You don 't wanna he punched, right?
I don 't like it.
I wanna help you. . .somehow.
You hear me?
Do what I told you to do earlier.
Hememher what it is?
Yes.
I ' m gonna keep an eye on you.
If you goof around again,
I ' ll do it again.
- His nose was hleeding?
- That's right.
- I was shocked at first.
- Mayhe it's all right.
You ' re drunk. So you can sey
whatever you want.
Mayhe strict 0uidance is
what he noeds.
- I ' ll go look.
- PIease, don 't.
They' re nice and quiet now.
Yo.
Yo.
Yo.
Yo.
Listen. Your grades will go up
as Iong as you do what l toll you.
Don 't you want your grades
to go up?
Yes, of course.
If you ' re not done hy the next time,
I ' ll punch you again.
Nose hleeding doesn 't hother me,
'cause I watch pro wrestling a lot.
Undorstand?
Yes.
Dut please he gentle
as much as you can.
- Shinichi, sorry to have disturhed you.
- Oh, no.
Oood joh.
- Thank you very much.
- Sure.
- I ' m 0oing.
- Would you like to stay for dinner?
No, not today.
Is your hushand taking a hath?
He seems to he very drunk today.
Sorry he harged in.
As long as it's not always.
I ' ll let you know if it hothers me.
PIease don 't get in a fight.
With your hushand?
How would l?
I have to go.
We' re having sukiyaki tor dinner.
Well, I have some thinking
to do today.
So, ploase excuse me.
Thank you.
- Um. . .
- Yes?
- Oive my regards to your hushand.
- l will.
Stop there and translate from
" He could sing and dance. "
Now, let's ask Mr. Tsuchiya
to read next.
Next, Mr. Numata.
Oood. Next, Mr. Shihata, ploase.
Yamashita, why are you Iaughing?
Oo on.
What?
Oood afternoon.
Oood afternoon.
You went shopping?
Yes, just around the corner.
I went shopping too.
Oh, I see.
- Welcome.
- Um. . . is Mieko in?
Ah, Mieko?
Hello, Mieko?
You have a visitor.
What's up, Numata?
Neod something?
- Cood evening.
- Good evening.
Ding-donq. Dinq-donq. Dad! Mom!
Open thc door!
Ifyou can 't comc to thc door for
a special reason, l'Il stay out Iatc!
This is my dad and mom.
This is my classmate, Mr. Numata.
Hi, I ' m Numata.
Mako yourselt at home.
Isn 't this a hright and cute room?
Yeah.
- Oo ahead and sit down.
- Whero?
Hight here. Hore.
- What a nice view to see every day.
- It's so ordinary and horing!
Anyway, what in the world
did you comc here for?
I can 't helievo you came!
I always wanted to have
a chat with you just once.
Mayho l should interview you.
But, you know, doesn 't it feel like you and I
belong to totally different worlds?
Different worlds?
We' re classmates.
That's true but...
You 're funny, Numata.
You totally heat me.
Mr. Numata, do you have sihlings?
- I have a younger hrother.
- I seo.
- What grade is he in?
- 9th grade.
9th grade? Must be tough
with the entrance exam.
Yeah.
He's usually home by now.
I wonder he's fighting or something.
- Does he ever tight?
I hear some kids hully Shigeyuki.
Is that so?
It'd he a different story if his grades
were the highest or second hest.
I wonder why he's hullied
when his grades are had.
Ah! Shinichi.
Say. . . Did you see Shigeyuki
on your way home?
I did.
Where?
At the bookstore.
He was really into it.
So l didn 't speak to him.
Dookstore?
I...
That's fine, hut. . .
ploase don 't get rough with him.
Enjoying it?
You hate me so much?
I don 't know yet.
Excuse me, sir,
pleaso pay tor the hook.
- How much?
- 480 yen.
All right.
- Cive me change.
- Change? OK.
Hold on a second.
Stay thero. Don 't move.
Don 't move. . .?
What happened?
Shigeyuki, what happened?
You suro you did it?
Hey.
You 'd hetter cut it out.
- Here you go.
- Thanks.
- Take your time.
- Thanks.
Now eat!
Isn 't it awfully quiet next door?
Maybe he's heing ohedient.
What a relief.
Shinichi, you ' re a freshman
hut don 't relax. Study hard.
Otherwise, l ' ll get in trouhle
with your father.
I know.
Osawa.
- Your name!
- Senuma.
Tsuchiya.
Ouch...
Stop! Stop it!
Open the door!
Didn 't they make a movie
out of this?
Hight. I went to see it
with your father.
Who was in it?
Let's see. . . Audrey Hophurn.
What is she like?
Is sho fat or skinny?
She's vory skinny.
- Do you want me to play something?
- What about this?
" I Could Have
Danced All Night. "
Ah, you ' ro early today.
The other son is home early too.
- What's the matter, Shinichi?
- No more music.
What were you playing?
This. " I Could Have
Danced All Night. "
There's no way you can
dance all night.
- You need to study all night.
- In million years.
Either wash your hands or
change your clothes.
- Say, Mom. . .
- What is it?
When was your tirst period?
In elementary school or
middle school?
- Why are you asking out of the hlue?
- Do you still have it?
Why wouldn 't l?
Do you use tampons or napkins?
I can 't tell when you ' re
on your period.
You ' re supposed to act differently,
like you get cranky.
But you never change.
Have you trained yourself?
- Don 't ask stupid questions.
- Doesn 't the hleeding hurt?
That's enough!
Hey, you 're sneaky.
You ' re always eavesdropping.
So, tell me, Mom, when wes
your first period?
So, tell me Shigeyuki,
when did your puhic hair grow?
Isn 't it kind of lonely
not having Mr. Yoshimoto here?
It'd be exhausting
it he were here all the time.
Are you getting along hetter now?
How do you like him
as a teacher?
You ' re always sleeping
at home Iately.
It's tough to he a freshman
in high school. Hight?
Hey, is that true?
Not really.
- Well, shall we go?
- Go where?
Where we don 't have to whisper.
- You mean our car?
- That's right.
- You ' re not taking a bath?
- Don 't worry. Let's just go.
Hold on a minute.
Don 't tell me you ' re putting on
your make up.
It's heen so Iong since
we came hore togethor.
That's true.
Wanna tell me something
ahout the tutor?
I don 't know how defiant
Shigeyuki is, hut...
it looks excessivo.
You haven 't seen it.
I wanna see it just once.
Just come home earlier.
Come on.
I can 't help it.
lt's not like I ' m playing.
Unless I work, we can 't send
Shinichi to college or...
Shigeyuki to high school.
We couldn 't hire a tutor.
But I ' m the onc who has to...
That's your joh.
It would 've heen easier
it they were more good-natured.
They are good.
Shinichi made it to Seibu High.
Other wives havo it a lot easier.
Why do we have to sacrifice so much
for the sako of our children?
I wish l had them much later
atter I got marricd.
We had no choice.
You got pregnant.
I wish I could go back to that day.
That sounds kinky.
I wish I could learn jazz dance.
DAY DU:
Yutaka TSUCHIYA Yasuko Kl KUCH I
Wake up!
Hey!
Hey!
Still half asleep!
Shut up, Yasuko Kikuchi!
What them?
What makes you think I like Kikuchi?
What gives you right to say
I like Kikuchi?
You hastard!
- Idiot!
- Who do you think you are?
Hurry up!
- Here you go.
- Thank you.
- Thank you for the other day.
- Don 't mention it.
You ' re the first one to greet me,
since we moved to this community.
Oh, is that so?
You know, there are a lot of people here
who work in a har and nightclub.
Um. . . this position is not
exactly comfortahle.
Is it all right if I move my chair?
Sure, please.
Thank you.
Can I ask your opinion on something?
Sure, go ahead.
To tell you the truth,
my hushand 's father is dying.
You mean. . . now?
Well. . . he's heen hed-ridden,
and. . . he's quito old.
So we think he won 't last
much longer.
It must he hard.
So you ' re living with him?
Right.
And. . . well...
When he passes away, how would we
get his hody out ot the huilding?
The elevator is too small for a coftin.
I ' m not sure...
The rooms are too small to hold
a wake, let alone a funeral.
We could hold a hig one
at my parents' house.
It's socielly awkward to hold a funeral
tor my in-law at my parcnts' house.
What in the world happened?
What shall l do?
Well...
- What should I do?
- Damn it!
Sorry, hut my son 's home.
Could you care ahout your neighhors,
and not just about your family?
I ' m pissed oft.
Let me see what I can do.
I ' ll ask someone who's with
the association here.
- You really will?
- Yes.
- You promise?
- Mom, lay out my tuton.
- I ' ll let you know.
- How?
Why don 't you come again?
When? What time should I come?
- Whenever is convenient for you.
- Please! Lay out my futon!
- Thank you, Ma'am.
- Ploase! Hurry!
PIease hurry up!
Please hurry and lay out my futon!
I ' m sorry l ' m late!
- Shigeyuki 's in hed.
- I seo.
His nosehleed has stopped.
- What happened?
- He must've heen in a fight.
He lost. All right.
Excuse me...
Yo!
Yo!
So you lost in a tight?
I didn 't lose.
You ' ro down in bed.
There wore tive of them.
Hmm. I see.
OK. Let's get started
with studying.
I have to?
Of course. Don 't play dumh.
Once we' re done studying,
l ' ll teach you how to tight.
AIl right?
Hamamoto, six points.
Yamamoto, twelve points.
Senuma, twenty points.
Osawa, 22 points.
Numata's grades
havo heen going up.
- Sort of.
- I wonder why.
How would I know?
Kameyama, 35 points.
You studied hard on your own too.
Thanks to you.
I ' m sure that the English test
l ' ll get hack tomorrow will he good too.
What's up?
You ' re taking a tough stand.
There's someone who hates to see
my grades go up. So, it's fun.
Who is it?
Hey, Shigeyuki, keep it up.
I guess tho new tutor has worked out.
We don 't know tor sure yet.
Dut his complexion is hetter
these days.
Hey, Shinichi.
I hear you haven 't heen to school.
Now Shigeyuki 's doing a good joh
and you ' re slacking otf.
It's Shi0eyuki 's turn to study hard
tor my sake too.
Doth you and Shigeyuki
hould study hard.
Yes. I ' ll come visit. . .
See you soon!
Yes. All right. Take caro. Byo now.
What could it he?
Wow, it's heavy.
Who was it?
It says it's tor Shigeyuki.
What is this?
- What is it?
- Tsuchiya hrought it.
Why don 't you open it?
- What a nice present.
- He doesn 't give up.
He's harassing you?
- Doesn 't this give you an erection?
- No way. It doesn 't.
- It works for me.
- I don 't like women.
You don 't like women?
I ' ll take this then.
Oet startod with your work.
What are you doing?
Huh? You did get an erection
trom that magazine.
- What the heck. ..
- Say, " No, I didn 't. "
- No, l didn 't.
- Oet started.
- Welcome.
- Hello.
You want Mieko?
- Hello, Mieko.
- Numa. . .?
- Numata.
Mr. Numata's here.
Hi, Numata. Come on in.
Shihata, Numata is hcre.
- Oh, hello.
- Hello.
- Please come in.
- Come on in.
What's this?
DAY DU:
Shigeyuki NU MATA Yuriko TAOAMI
Numata.
Say... -
What is it?
You sure get bullied a lot.
- Dy whom?
- Tsuchiya.
He doesn 't liko me.
You ' re so dumh. If that's the case,
you should kiss up to him.
How?
Like by making him feel like
he's respected.
A guy like him?
Why do l have to do such a thing?
It's much better than heing bullied?
Tagami, don 't you have a girl
you hate?
I sure do.
In our class?
Yes.
Who is it?
Come on. Tell mc.
Masami Kimura.
'Cause she's protty?
She's ahsolutely obnoxious.
Oirls are scary.
I had no idea you hated her so much.
You don 't show it.
You can do the same to Tsuchiya.
You just need to grit your teeth
and suck up to him a Iittle.
You 're hein0 too true
to your feolings.
You know what?
I perform occult stuff on her
at home.
Occult?
So that she won 't flirt with
the person I have crush on.
When l comc to school evcryday...
and see how its working little
hy Iittle, I get so excited.
So you have crush on someone
in our class?
Sort of.
Who is it?
You ' re so childish.
Numata...
I love you.
Tsuchiya told you to do this.
Why do you think that way?
Oood morning.
Oood morning.
You ' re 0etting full of yourself letely
just because your grades are up.
It's none of your husinoss.
Dy the way, stop harassing me.
What's up with that magazine?
You pointed out my cheating
the other day!
It's your fault.
Some things should he kept quiet.
Hey, are you sure
you ' ro alone today?
Where are your cronies?
Shut up. They follow me and
back me up on their own.
I can take you on hy myselt.
You 're so annoying.
What the heck?
l hato you too.
Your grades may he up, hut l don 't
want you in Seibu High with me.
I ' m applying for Jingu High.
As Iong as you know your place.
Don 't come stink up Seihu High.
- What's your prohlem?
- You hastard.
Wanna fight?
You hastard.
Why would l wanne go to Seihu High
with you? Jingu High is just fine.
- Wenna take a hreak?
- Yes.
Your mom has started to hring in
the snacks pretty late.
She doesn 't have to worry ahout
what's going on anymore.
- You ' re too optimistic.
- Sorry.
- Teacher.
- What?
Do you havo a girlfriend?
- I do.
- Is she pretty?
Ot course she is.
- Does she go to Jonan College too?
- No.
Are you going to marry her?
Oh, thank you.
Looks like perfect timing!
So pretty...
Move over the notebook!
Oo ahead and eat!
His grades have gone up quite a hit.
Thank you.
His attitude in class hasn 't changed.
Does he go to cram school?
He has a tutor.
Really? He must he really good.
He's not endorsed hy the Ministry
of Education like you, though.
With the way he's making progress
he can aim for Seihu High.
Well, the thing is. . .
he says he's tine with Jingu High.
He' ll definitely get into Jingu High.
Mayhe he's not confident enough?
He doesn 't want to go to Seihu High
no matter what.
I see. That's fine, if he's
so determined.
Let's see. . . Jingu High.
That's it. Thank you.
Dut, my hushand...
What is it?
I wonder if we should say Seibu High.
What is this?
Didn 't you all talk about this?
Right, hut...
What's this sunny-side up?
What?
What's up with this yolk?
What's wrong with the yolk?
It's too hard to do "Tsuck Tsuck. "
"Tsuck-T suck? "
You know l like
sucking the yolk out.
You like doing that?
We've lived together
for a few decades now.
You should know what I like
and what I don 't hy now.
Sorry, I wasn 't aware of it.
I can 't helieve you guys picked
Jingu High without talking to me.
We talked ahout it last night.
It has to ho Seihu High.
- He completely rejects Seihu High.
- It doesn 't make sense.
Seihu ranks higher than Jingu and...
now his grades are good enough
for Seihu High.
Why not aim tor Seihu?
Of course I said that to him too.
You just can 't do a good joh.
You ' re too lenient with him.
Why don 't you talk to him thcn?
You know what?
If I get involved too much, it could
turn into a murder case with a hat.
That's why I ' m delegating this issue
to you and the tutor.
Why did you have your mother go?
My homeroom teacher is a nag.
You idiot, it's ahout your future.
Why do you use your mother
to decido your futuro?
- I don 't like to talk to my teacher.
- So what?
You haven 't changed a hit.
What are you doin0?
Sit down.
Why didn 't you choose Seihu High?
- I ' m fine with Jingu High.
- " Fine"?
No one's preparing for the exam
with such an attitude.
You ' re supposed to he studying to
enter the school you wanna go to.
You and I have heen working hard
till your nose bleeds. Right?
Right.
What's the matter?
Where are you going?
What happened?
Say, Shinichi,
where do you think they went?
Why would I know?
I ' m not spying on Shigeyuki.
Why did you choose Jingu High?
I like Jingu High.
Switch to Seihu High. All right?
What's wrong with Jingu High?
It's hetter to he on top at Jingu
than be on the bottom at Seihu.
Why not he on top
at Seihu then, huh?
Hi, I ' m Tsuchiya.
Shigeyuki, Mr. Tsuchiya's here.
- Tsuchiya's here?
- Yes.
- Tell him I ' m not here.
- Why?
- Is he alone?
- I don 't know.
So, you are Tsuchiya?
- Are you alone?
- Yes.
- Are you sure you ' re elone?
- Yes.
- Who are you?
- l ' m a tutor.
- What do you want, Tsuchiye?
- Yo.
What is it?
I wanna talk to you.
Can we step outside?
Sure.
That Tsuchiya guy looks weak.
I thought he might he
a typical bully.
Why is he scared ot guy like him?
Tsuchiya and Shigeyuki have heen
in tho same class since grade school.
When the road expansion forced
us to movc,
they wound up in the same school.
That's the whole reason
he doesn 't like him?
They hoth know eech others deepest
secrets and emharrassing moments.
What are those moments?
Well...
Tell me. For examplc?
One of them is called the shit
pollution in the classroom case.
What the heck is the
"shit pollution case" ?
Well, he shit in the room
during class.
- Wait, you meen he pooped?
- Yes.
Hc had a touch of diarrhca
that morning.
It qot worsc durinq class.
He rclcd his abdomcn, squcczed
his butt...anythinq to distract himsclf.
Hc torc up his book and stulfed his mouth,
but hc could hear thc slushy sound
from his abdomcn.
Hc tricd his bcst to hold it
until thc class was ovcr.
But his tcachcr callcd his name.
That's when thc accidcnt happcncd.
Thc wholc class was in uproar.
Evcryonc startcd scrcaminq.
Thc tcachcr tricd to scnd him
to a bathroom, but...
he couldn 't walk well hecause he had
already pooped in his pants.
Both Tsuchiya and he remember
that incident very vividly.
Would something like thet effect
his entrance exams?
There are many incidents like that.
That's so silly, you know.
PIcasc don 't tcll him I told you this.
- Ilyou tcll him, l'II bc in danqcr.
- O/ course l'll tcll him.
- Come on, Mr. Yoshimoto.
- O/ course l'll tcll him.
- Lct's not.
- l won 't.
You promisc?
Don 't tell the others
that you heat me up.
Why would l?
- Hey. . .
- Huh?
How come your grades are up?
That guy is your tutor?
Sort of.
He's awesome, isn 't he?
He goes to Jonan University.
Not a hig deal.
Jonan University?
Not a big deal then.
- You ' re going to a cram school?
- Yeah, I am.
You ' re still into that hockey game?
Sort of. Your dad used to
play hockey, right?
Yeah, hut l ' m not interested
in hockey.
I onvy you.
My dad just played tahle tennis.
Who cares?
At loast he's rich.
Today is the last dey to suhmit
the high school ot his choice.
He hasn 't suhmitted yet.
How can that he? He said
he was going to Seihu High.
Right. I thought so too.
But he hasn 't suhmitted it yet.
You have no choice hut to go then.
I 'd rather not go. That's why I ' m
asking you to go.
I heg you.
If we don 't do anything,
he' ll end up in Jingu High.
I don 't know why he can 't even
take care of such a simple thing.
Please. I ' m begging you.
Please go to the school to help
Shigeyuki talk to his teacher.
- Mother.
- Yes?
Do you have soy milk?
Sure.
Here you go.
Please help.
If we don 't take care of this now,
I wonder what my hushand will say.
Is there a Mr. Ohno?
Mr. Ohno?
Here.
May l have a moment with you?
Numate's parents sent me
to meet with you.
What tor?
To change the school of his choice.
That's a prohlem.
Do you have power ot attorney?
What do you mean?
I 've already talked to him ahout it.
- We can 't change it any more?
- They didn 't tell you?
Only he himself or his parents
can submit the request.
Then. . . please call him in.
- What?
- Himself.
I ' m his teacher.
Well, thin0s happened and
he changed his mind.
Changed? How?
Like l said, he changed his mind.
You ' Il see when you ask him...
Dut l ' m his teacher and
I soe him everyday.
- Of course.
- Yes.
So, you ' Il see
if you call him in now.
But I see him everyday
and talk to him.
You ' ll find out if you call him in.
- Who' re you? Why should I call him?
- lsn 't he here?
I ' ll talk to him directly.
You don 't need to get involved.
- Isn 't he here?
- He is, it's lunch recess.
Then, if you could bring him in.
Let's go ahead and do that.
Do I have to do that?
- Do I have to? Do I?
- Please hring him in.
- Totsuke. Totsuka.
- Yes.
Oo get Numata.
I ' m in the middle of having lunch.
I ' ll be done soon.
Ot course.
Mr. Ohno.
Here.
He will tell you directly
the name of the school ot his choice.
What's your choice?
- It's Seibu High.
- What?
- It's Seibu High.
- You said Jingu...
You heard what he said.
Thank you.
Excuse us.
I passcd the exam lor Scibu Hiqh.
Tsuchiya will qo to a private school.
We 'rc qoinq separatc ways.
How was it? You passed, right?
You didn 't pass?
Come on!
You pessed! All right!
I ' m so happy for you!
Shigeyuki! lt's a 0ood thing
you went for Soihu High!
Tsuchiya is going to a private school.
I ' m so happy for you!
We need to call your dad!
Shinichi, he passed!
I ' m so happy for you!
Well.
Shigeyuki, you should thank
Mr. Yoshimoto.
Hey, we can 't start eating.
Thanks.
Sure.
What? Is that all?
- Let's start eating.
- Yes.
Why don 't we toast?
- Shigeyuki, congratulations.
- Congratulations.
- Congratulations!
Please go ahead and eat.
It certainly cost me a lot, hut
Mr. Yoshimoto did a great joh.
Not really.
You even went all the way to school.
Thank you so much.
Doth our kids were horn smart.
Say, Shinichi, it's your turn next.
Right?
I hear you 're skipping school lately.
That's not good at all .
You should learn from
Shigeyuki 's example.
We're celehrating Shigeyuki 's success.
We' ll discuss Shinichi some other time.
That's not how it works.
We rarely get together like this
to talk.
But still...
- Mr. Yoshimoto.
- Yes?
Could you tutor Shinichi this time?
No. A Jonan student wouldn 't he ahle
to teach a national university candidate.
Oh, roally?
Jonan University is that interior?
Honey!
Listen, Shinichi.
I 've heen focusing on Shigeyuki
for a long time, hut...
I ' m going to start being strict with
you from now on. All right?
So sorry.
- Help me!
- Here you go.
Study hard, OK?
I ' m counting on you.
I don 't feel like going to
a national university.
What will you do
if you don 't go?
I may not go to any college.
Come on. Don 't say that in front of
Shigeyuki. That's not good. Please.
I 've got so many things
I wanna do.
And I can do those without
going to college.
If you don 't, whet will your mother
and l do? Huh?
You ' ll manage, 'cause you guys
are a couple, you know.
What them?
What kind ot attitudo is that?
What's his prohlem?
Just let it go for now. Today were
celebrating Shigeyuki 's success.
How come you ' re so calm?
What is this?
I see. Only l didn 't know ahout this.
Isn 't that right?
Hey, Shinichi, you already told Mom
that you weren 't going to college?
I already told her.
What's going on? How come you kept
something this important secret?
Decause you ' re never there
to listen to what l have to say.
I listen to you in our car.
But you comc homc late,
and I thought I could wait till we were
dono dealing with Shigeyuki 's exam.
That's why I didn 't mention it to you.
I ' m even thinking ahout quitting
Seibu High.
Why do you have to quit?
You managed to get in and now
you 're gonna quit haltway?
Seibu High is a prep school to go to
a national university. Don 't you get it?
I have my own thoughts!
You don 't think!
I ' m the onc who thinks for you!
Your attitude could lead
to a murder case with a hat!
Oh, really? Then go ahead
and hit me with a bat! You idiot!
Cut it out.
What have you hoen doing?
What have you hoen doing?
What are you doin0?
Cut it out!
Honey, are you OK?
Look what you 've dono to him!
- There's a cockroach over there.
- Cockroach?!
- Shinichi.
- What?
Ow...
Oood bye now.
Let's see. . . Number 11 .
Numata.
Numata!
Yes.
Read it.
What's going on?
I wonder it something happened.
Shinichi . Shigeyuki.
Do you want a snack?
Don 't you think the helicopter is
unusually loud today?
Something spccial ahout today?
Hello?
Can you hear me?
I guess you guys are hoth asleep?
Shigeyuki.
Shinichi.
You two are sleeping so well.
I wonder it something happened.
I'm exhausted.
Yusaku MATSUDA
I'm exhausted.
Yusaku MATSUDA
Whet the heck is this?
Juzo lTAMl Saori YU
Kl Whet the heck is this?
Juzo lTAMl
Saori YU Kl
Juzo lTAMl Saori YU Kl I've
completely grasped the dusk.
I've completely
grasped the dusk.
Icbirota MIYAKAWA Junicbi TSUJITA
I've completely grasped the dusk.
Icbirota MIYAKAWA
Junicbi TSUJITA
lcbirota MIYAKAWA Junicbi
TSUJITA Who told you to do this?
Who told you to do this?
Yoneko MATSUKANE Jun
TOGAWA Who told you to do this?
Yoneko MATSUKANE
Jun TOGAWA
Yoneko MATSUKANE Jun
TOGAWA Numate, 20 points!
Numate, 20 points!
Kaori OKAMOTO Kazuko
SHIRAKAWA Numate, 20 points!
Kaori OKAMOTO
Kazuko SHIRAKAWA
- What's this sunny-side up?
- What?
It's too hard to do
"Tsuck Tsuck."
Judging from your
school record,
you can probably go
to Jingu High.
I can go to Seibu High.
- Open the doorl
-Open the doorl
Say, l'll pey you 10, 000 yen
every time he goes up one renk.
- 30 ranks for 300, 000 yen then ?
- That's right.
Mr. Numata, it's a promise ?
Don 't tell me you're putting on
your make up.
I'm calling you stupid for
saying that at e time like this.
Written and directed by
Yosbimitsu MORITA