The Yen Family

1988 [JAPANESE]

Comedy

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IMDb Rating 7.0 10 92

Plot summary



November 24, 2022 at 03:07 AM

Director

Yôjirô Takita

Top cast

720p.WEB
1.01 GB
1280*692
Japanese 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 52 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by steve-balogh 4 / 10

Quite silly, also hard to read subtitles

I thought this film was quite silly yet rather sad. I hope that the "Yen" family does not exist too often in real life. I thought it was sad that the obsession with small change was more important to the family than the happiness of the son. And then to allow their 9 year old daughter to talk dirty to some pervert with a "lolita complex" was too much. But I suppose it was only a comedy.

I was also quite annoyed with the subtitles. Having fuzzy white text on a light background makes it very hard to read. I was watching the film on video, so I had the opportunity to rewind and freeze frame, but I should not have to do this. A good example of what subtitles should look like are those created by SBS in Australia on their foreign language programs which are a strongly contrasting yellow. They are much easier to read.

Overall I was not all that impressed by the film and gave it 4/10. I was hoping for more. I watched "Sada Abe" just before "Yen Family" so perhaps too high a standard had been set with which Yen could not compete.

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