Yen Family = Kimura-Ke No Hitobi To

In Japan today everyone is looking for ways to increase their wealth and assets, but the Kimura family is particularly determined - in fact it is abnormally determined - to accumulate wealth. They don’t want a palatial mansion, they have no outstanding loans and they are not planning to travel abroad. They just love money so much that they work day and night for even the smallest amounts. And of course nothing is allowed to go to waste.

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Credits

director

Yojiro Takita

co-producer

Shinya Kawai

Shuji Miyajima

production company

Fuji Television Productions

Melies

Duration

01:53:00:00

Production places

Japan

Production dates

1988

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

325117

Language

English

Audience classification

MA

Subject categories

Comedy

Comedy → Black comedy

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Japan

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Japan, 1988

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