Kazoku Game
Other Title: 家族ゲーム, Kazoku Game
Genres: Family, school
Episodes: 10
Country: Japan
Director: Sato Yuichi
Writer: Muto Shogo
Network: Fuji TV
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Related Show: Novel Kazoku Game by Honma Yohei
Cast:
- Sakurai Sho as Tago Yudai / Yoshimoto Koya
- Kamiki Ryunosuke as Numata Shinichi
- Kutsuna Shiori as Mizukawa Sara (Asami Maika / Tachibana Maki)
- Tsunematsu Yuri as young Mizukami Sara (ep9)
- Uragami Seishuu as Numata Shigeyuki
- Kitahara Rie as Mogami Asuka
- Itao Itsuji as Numata Kazushige
- Suzuki Honami as Numata Kayoko
Synopsis:
The Family Game was originally an award winning novel by Honma Yohei that was adapted for television drama and film. 30 years later, the story returns to the screen again on Fuji TV, Wednesday nights. Sakurai Sho stars in this troubling drama as the private tutor Yoshimoto Koya. Koya becomes a tutor to a student, Numata Shigeyuki, an underachiever on the verge of dropping out of middle school. Expecting immediate results, Shigeyuki’s father makes a deal with Koya that if he could make Shigeyuki return to school within a week, he would receive a 100,000 yen bonus. Koya accepts the offer, replying that he would only need 5 days to complete the mission but demands that no one should interfere with his methodology in doing so.
A handsome face with a reckless mouth, Koya is a wacky unpredictable pro tutor. How will he save Shigeyuki, a boy who has been bullied in school, betrayed by his best friend, and become a shut-in at home? How will he educate Shigeyuki to change his ways? What is Koya’s motivation in teaching? Koya’s “education” is nothing like anyone has ever imagined. You just have to see it yourself to believe it! — Fuji TV
