The Crazy Family (Gyakufunsha kazoku)

Reportedly named after the 1982 incident involving the Japan Airlines Flight 350 whose captain, later found to be suffering from deep depression, deliberately crashed the plane by putting one of the engines into reverse thrust, The Crazy Family (Gyakufunsha kazoku, or “The…

Arsaib Gilbert

The circle is too small for craziness. One enters the blue triangle of knowledge and wields the chainsaw of love, escalating into glorious Family Sunday absurdist set-pieces that everyone wished to have. Your sons and daughters at the punk's amusement park. The insecticide…

PlaguDocta

Film #90 that was recommended to me -- now subject to loose, arbitrary ranking! (Recommended by Squill 🦑) This... just might be the best movie I've ever seen. I'm shying away from fully committing to that because it's such a large claim, unseating the lovely The Passion…

Daisoujou

Light-hearted at first, then increasingly demented comedic mayhem of the kind you can only find in Japan. Kinda foreshadows Takashi Miike's insane forays into disturbimg family relationships. Unfortunately it suddenly pulls back just as it was peaking by turning into a…

Maldone

Another zany flick from Gakuryu Ishii! This time he's rolling up his sleeves to mold one of the weirdest comedies I've ever seen. Like Haneke's Seventh Continent if it stubbed its toe then fell down the stairs through an 80's slapstick romp. Wut??? Exactly. Katsukuni and…

Bob McCully

Thematically similar to Schatjes (Ruud van Hemert, also 1984) of which the tagline reads: A family declares war - on itself! This is a better movie. Congratulations and a warm thank you to the thousands of proud owners of Cine Nova.

Yves Bouwen

The most I have ever said "OH MY GOD" aloud in a movie theater. I don't know how they pulled off some of these sequences, but it's astounding on a technical level in addition to being completely insane. Eternally grateful to Japan Society for screening this. Grandpa 4ever.

Samm Deighan

Anarchic lampoon of familial domestic drama and early 80’s comic farce that probably should’ve topped out at 80 minutes, but it’s tough to say Ishii doesn’t bring the energy!

Evan “Raymond Gun-Virus” Pincus

the insurmountable weight of sociocultural expectations, am i right? there is a balancing act here as the film switches gears from purely zany & wacky shenanigans involving characters w/ increasingly bizarre idiosyncrasies to a darker, more odd and uncomfortable situation.…

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