Sakurai Sho to star in new drama "Kazoku Game" on Fuji TV

Some terebi news in Japan already telling this remake from movie with same title. In simple way, I just repost it from other page and collect it and make it in one post. This year Arashi member will doing individual activity, on their drama/movie and new variety show. I think Ohno-san will take a rest for a while and started to painting again this year, but I’m still hoping Kagiheya SP or Movie. Maa…I’m going explain about this remake drama starring Sho Sakurai (31^st).

The Family Game (家族ゲーム Kazoku Gēmu?) is a 1983 Japanese movie directed by Yoshimitsu Morita. The Family Game received several awards including the best movie of the year as selected by Japanese critics. Although the movie missed the Japan Academy Prize for the Best Picture (losing out to The Ballad of Narayama), Ichirōta Miyagawa was awarded Newcomer of the Year.

Plot summary

The Numata family consists of the father, Kōsuke (Juzo Itami); mother, Chikako (Saori Yuki); and two sons, Shinichi (Jun'ichi Tsujita) and Shigeyuki (Ichirōta Miyagawa). Shigeyuki is a junior high school student. He will soon be taking a high school entrance examination. Unlike the high school student brother, Shinichi, who lives up to the father's expectations, Shigeyuki’s grades are poor, and he is only interested in roller coasters. The father finds a private tutor, Yoshimoto (Yusaku Matsuda), for Shigeyuki and imposes all responsibilities for his exam on the tutor. Yoshimoto's behaviour is extremely strange, including kissing Shigeyuki and hitting him painfully hard. Even though Yoshimoto is a seventh year student of a third-rate university, Shigeyuki’s marks become better and better. Eventually he passes the exam for the high school. At a family celebration, Yoshimoto begins to riot, hitting people, pouring wine on their heads, and throwing spaghetti around wildly. (source : The Family Game Wikipedia)

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The love affair between Arashi and Fuji TV goes on with the announcement of Sho's new drama! Here's a snippet of Sho's comments and a subbed trailer of the original movie which it's based on. 

Fuji TV changes the history of the Wednesday 10pm slot! From the “variety at 10”, we’re switching to “Wed-10”. [T/N: This is a common abbreviation for dramas on a certain day and timeslot, like the Getsu-ku, literally, Monday at 9pm]

The commemorative first drama will be “The Family Game”, starring Arashi’s Sakurai Sho. The unprecedented family tutor portrayed by Sakurai will stir up a storm within the Japanese education system!

Sakurai Sho’s comment:

Personally, I am indebted to my family tutors during middle school and high school.

I feel a great sense of gratitude to those teachers to this very day. Just the two of us. I still can’t forget that special tension, and unique sense of trust. I was thinking, “It’d be nice if I could reflect my memories of that time in this drama.” With the help of the drama, the staff, my co-stars, I’m really excited to show a side of myself that people have yet to see.

“The Family Game”.

Contrary to its name, it might sting a little when you watch it together with your family. I felt that it’d be nice if it were a drama which did that. I ask for your favor from here on.

Fuji TV programming department – Mizuno Ayako

Why Sakurai Sho-san was appointed as the protagonist?

Currently, Sakurai Sho-san is a highly popular idol and actor who also acts as a newscaster; he’s an impeccable person who’s talented, and leaves a favorable impression. On the other hand, the protagonist in “The Family Game”, Yoshimoto: you have no idea what’s going on in his mind, he’s a queer and creepy family tutor, a person who is unheard of. At times, he can be violent. Of course, Yoshimoto doesn’t carry out these unprecedented actions for no reason; he does reveal the lesson which he is trying to teach through his actions. However, Yoshimoto is a character that’s a complete reversal of the image Sakurai-san has. A Sakurai-san that no one has yet to see and a family tutor which is unheard of. I think that’s a rather interesting combination. I simply wish to see that materialized. (credit : transitions101 livejournal)

Trailer from the past movie, Sho-chan as Yoshimoto in this new drama Youtube , What do you think? (credit photo from tumblr)