Odd Japanese film

[maturin]

Musing on the End of the World (the Swiss super-duper collider thingie) I remembered a Japanese comedy about a tutor who is hired by a family to teach their dim-witted high-school aged son.

The tutor ends up dominating the family. I seem to recall the film ended, slightly improbably, with the onset of thermo-nuclear war. Saw it a long time ago on Japanese TV, maybe about the time of Tampopo, the noodle film. It had me in stitches.

Anyone know it?

[J. J.]

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With Yusaku Matsuda in a great dining room scene ...

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Kazoku g�mu / The Family Game ([ame="http://www.amazon.com/Family-Game-Foreign-Film-Favorites/dp/B000GFLKG2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1254691933&sr=1-1"]1983[/ame])

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