The Crazy Family (Sogo Ishii, 1984)

Friday 26.04.24 @ OFFLINE Glasgow | 19.00 | 1hr 28m | New Restoration Scottish Premiere

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Having just relocated to a comfortable new home in suburbia, the Kobayashi family – Katsuhiko, his wife, Saeko, and their two children, Masaki and Erika – appear to be the picture of middle-class success. But the family’s comfortable bourgeois veneer begins disintegrating when grandfather Yasukuni and white ants infest their home, eating away at the woodwork. As the Kobayashis’ house begins to crumble, so does the sanity of its inhabitants. Katsuhiko takes it upon himself to keep them from the asylum…at any cost.

C/w Suicide; Threat of Sexual Violence

Screening as part of Weird Weekend’s Monthly Screening Series.

Thanks to Third Window Films & Screen Scotland

Black and white still image of older man wearing a safety helmet attacking a younger man with a golf club. The younger man wears a transparent pyramid on his head, and defends with a baseball bat.
Black and white image of a dishevelled family standing despondent in a suburban road.
Black and white still image of a man in army fatigues and a woman wearing a striped top digging in mud at the bottom of a pit
Black and white still image of older man wearing a safety helmet attacking a younger man with a pick axe. The younger man wears a transparent pyramid on his head, and defends with a baseball bat.