:Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride
{{short description|1984 film by Masayuki Suo}}
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| name = Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride
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| director = Masayuki Suo
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| screenplay = Masayuki Suo
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| starring = Kaoru Kaze
Ren Osugi
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| editing = Junichi Kikuchi
| studio = Kokuei
| distributor = Shintōhō Eiga
| released = {{Film date|1984|06}}
| runtime = 62 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = English
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{{Nihongo|Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride|変態家族兄貴の嫁さん|Hentai kazoku: Aniki no yomesan}} is a 1983 Japanese Pink film written and directed by Masayuki Suo and released by Shintōhō Eiga.{{cite web | url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=149063| script-title=ja:変態家族 兄貴の嫁さん (1984) | publisher=Allcinema.net | access-date=2011-08-15|language= Japanese}}{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1984/dh002290.htm|script-title=ja:変態家族兄貴の嫁さん|publisher= JMDB|access-date=2011-10-05|language=Japanese}}
Synopsis
Complications are brought to a middle-class family when older brother Kōichi brings home his new sexually voracious bride Yuriko. Younger brother Kazuo looks to the new arrival as a source of sexual release while sister Akiko surreptitiously works in a soapland and Father lusts after a bar proprietess.
Cast
- Kaoru Kaze ({{nihongo2|風かおる}}) as Yuriko Mamiya
- Miki Yamaji ({{nihongo2|山地美貴}}) as Akiko Mamiya
- Usagi Asō ({{nihongo2|麻生うさぎ}}) as the Bar Madam
- Ren Osugi as Shukichi Mamiya (the Father)
- Kei Shutō ({{nihongo2|首藤啓}}) as Kazuo Mamiya
- Shirō Shimomoto as Kōichi Mamiya
Background
Although he had written screenplays for other pink films and was an assistant director (and a bit player) in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Kandagawa Pervert Wars, this film marks the directorial debut of Masayuki Suo who would later achieve international fame for his film Shall We Dance? Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride has been discussed by movie critics as an homage to or parody of the family dramas of early Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu.{{cite book |last=Weisser|first=Thomas|author2=Yuko Mihara Weisser|title=Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films|url=https://archive.org/details/japanesecinemaen00weis|url-access=limited|pages=[https://archive.org/details/japanesecinemaen00weis/page/n309 308]–309|year=1998|publisher=Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications|location=Miami|isbn=1-889288-52-7}}{{cite book |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema|pages=239|year=2008|publisher=FAB Press|location=Guildford|isbn=978-1-903254-54-7}} Jasper Sharp says it wittily puts together the plots of a number of Ozu's best known works within the framework of a pink film. Suo also uses the trademark camera angles, visual effects and stylized movements from Ozu's films in contrast with the sexual antics of this genre.
Availability
The film was released theatrically in Japan in June 1984 and published as a DVD in Japan on June 28, 2002 by Uplink ({{nihongo2|アップリンク}}).{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%A4%89%E6%85%8B%E5%AE%B6%E6%97%8F-%E5%85%84%E8%B2%B4%E3%81%AE%E5%AB%81%E3%81%95%E3%82%93-DVD-%E5%91%A8%E9%98%B2%E6%AD%A3%E8%A1%8C/dp/B000067JWV|title=変態家族 兄貴の嫁さん (DVD)|date=28 June 2002|publisher=www.amazon.co.jp|access-date=2011-10-05|language=Japanese}} It had earlier (May 2000) been released in Video CD format with Chinese and English subtitles by Asia Video Publishing Company.{{cite web|url=http://www.buyoyo.com/buyoyo/eng/ProductDisplay.do?prrfnbr=185578&prtype=0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425050838/http://www.buyoyo.com/buyoyo/eng/ProductDisplay.do?prrfnbr=185578&prtype=0 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-04-25 |title=Hentai Kazoku (The Abnormal Family) |publisher=www.buyoyo.com|access-date=2011-10-05 }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/abnormfa.shtml Review] at Midnight Eye
- {{IMDb title|0085671}}
{{Masayuki Suo}}
Category:Films directed by Masayuki Suo
Category:Japanese sex comedy films
Category:1980s pornographic films