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Kazoku gokko

2015 · 100 min Comedy Drama
8.0 / 10 · TMDB

Different people and five distinct families act out scenarios, scripts, and painful what-ifs. We first meet the four Suzuki family members, sitting isolated around a table. Then, a will is unveiled, rippling through the heirs. Sisters clash in a quiet war. A funeral spirals away from its planned solemnity. Each vignette is a microcosm of familial bonds, where assigned roles, unspoken expectations, and raw feelings collide within staged yet achingly familiar domestic theaters.

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Original Title 家族ごっこ
Year 2015
Country Japan
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Hanta Kinoshita
Runtime 100 min.
Rating TMDB: 8.0/10 (1 votes)

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The film brilliantly walks the line between comedy and drama, using the conceit of 'acting out' to expose the deepest familial fissures. Each scenario feels like both a rehearsal and the opening night of a long-simmering conflict.

What lingers after the curtain falls is a sharp, empathetic portrait of the roles we're cast into by birth. It's a clever, poignant study of the scripts we follow and the lines we dare to improvise. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Hanta Kinoshita

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The muted light of domestic spaces, a theatrical tension in the silence, eruptions of restrained emotion.

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