The Exam
1999 · Movie · 114 min. · Japan
Film parodies a family putting their 6-year old daughter through rigorous exams and IQ tests to enter a better than average elementary school. It also looks at the midlife crisis of the husband and touches on role reversal in the family as the father becomes the homemaker and the mother goes out selling tombstones.
Direction Yōjirō Takita
Cast Eikichi Yazawa · Yûko Tanaka · Masahiko Nishimura · Ren Osugi · Natsumi Ohira · Yuriko Hirooka · Hirotarô Honda · Yukijiro Hotaru · Ittoku Kishibe · Megumi Kobayashi · Masako Motai · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Atsuko Nakamura · Arimasa Ohsawa · Koji Sasagawa
Soundtrack Toshihiko Sato
Screenplay Nobuyuki Isshiki
Cinematography Naoki Kayano
Original title Ojuken
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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