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==User Rating==<br />
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==Profile==<br />
* '''Drama:''' The Family Game<br />
* '''Romaji:''' Kazoku Gemu<br />
* '''Japanese:''' 家族ゲーム<br />
* '''Director:''' [[Yuichi Sato]], [[Kazuyuki Iwata]]<br />
* '''Writer:''' [[Yohei Honma]] (novel), [[Shogo Muto]]<br />
* '''Network:''' [[Fuji TV]]<br />
* '''Episodes:''' 10<br />
* '''Release Date:''' April 17 - June 19, 2013<br />
* '''Runtime:''' Wednesday 22:00<br />
* '''TV Ratings:''' 13.0% (weekly average)<br />
* '''Language:''' Japanese<br />
* '''Country:''' Japan<br />
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==Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©==<br />
Kazushige Numata and his wife Kayoko have two sons. The first son Shinichi studies well, but the second son Shigeyuki does not. Kazushige and Kayoko are worried about Shigeyuki, who might even fail to enter high school. Making things worse, Shigeyuki stays at home and don't go to school. <br />
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Kazushige and his wife Kayoko finds an ad for a private tutor on the internet. They contact and then meet Yoshimoto ([[Sho Sakurai]]), who is the private tutor. During their meeting, both parties lays out one condition to work with each other. The father stipulates that Shigeyuki must go back to school within a week or Yoshimoto will be fired. Meanwhile, Yoshimoto stipulates that the parents must not interfere with his work. Yoshimoto's extraordinary teaching methods then influences not only Shigeyuki, but also his entire family.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
# Based on novel "Kazoku Gemu" by Yohei Honma (published in 1982 by Shueisha Inc.).<br />
# Related titles:<br />
## [[The Family Game]] | Kazoku Geemu (1983)<br />
## [[The Family Game - Japanese Drama|The Family Game]] | Kazoku Gemu (Fuji TV / 2013)<br />
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==Cast==<br />
{{CastPictures7<br />
|1picture=File:The Family Game - Japanese Drama-Sho Sakurai.jpg<br />
|1name=Sho Sakurai<br />
|1charactername=Koya Yoshimoto<br />
|2picture=File:The Family Game - Japanese Drama-Ryunosuke Kamiki.jpg<br />
|2name=Ryunosuke Kamiki<br />
|2charactername=Shinichi Numata<br />
|3picture=File:The Family Game - Japanese Drama-Seishuu Uragami.jpg<br />
|3name=Seishuu Uragami<br />
|3charactername=Shigeyuki Numata<br />
|4picture=File:The Family Game - Japanese Drama-Itsuji Itao.jpg<br />
|4name=Itsuji Itao<br />
|4charactername=Kazushige Numata<br />
|5picture=File:The Family Game - Japanese Drama-Honami Suzuki.jpg<br />
|5name=Honami Suzuki<br />
|5charactername=Kayoko Numata<br />
|6picture=File:The Family Game - Japanese Drama-Shiori Kutsuna.jpg<br />
|6name=Shiori Kutsuna<br />
|6charactername=Sara Mizukami/Maki Tachibana/Maika Asami<br />
|7picture=File:The Family Game - Japanese Drama-Rie Kitahara.jpg<br />
|7name=Rie Kitahara<br />
|7charactername=Asuka Mogami<br />
}}<br />
'''Additional Cast Members:'''<br />
* [[Shige Uchida]] - Katsuno <br />
* [[Kenjiro Nishimoto]] - Yasushi Yamao <br />
* [[Kakeru Yoshida]] - Manabu Ichihara <br />
* [[Shugo Oshinari]] - Koya Yoshimoto<br />
* [[Hajime Yoshii]] - Sota Sanada<br />
* [[Ichirota Miyakawa]] - Takashi Enomoto (ep.1,10)<br />
* [[Kaito Matsushima]] - Mitsuru Sonoda (ep.1-10)<br />
* [[Naoko Sato (1960)|Naoko Sato]] - Koya's mother (ep.3,6-7,10)<br />
* [[Atsushi Korechika]] - Komon (ep.4,7)<br />
* [[Soichi Hirama]] - Takatsu (ep.5-6)<br />
* [[Arata Saeki]] - Marukawa (ep.6,9)<br />
* [[Takashi Kodama]] - Nishiguchi (ep.6,9)<br />
* [[Taijiro Tamura]] - Takayanagi (ep.6,9)<br />
* [[Kunio Murai]] - Yasuhiko Maezono (ep.7)<br />
* [[Ryo Iwase]] - Wakabayashi (ep.8)<br />
* [[Yuri Tsunematsu]] - Sara Mizukami (middle school student)<br />
* [[Miki Omura]] - teacher (ep.9)<br />
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==Episode Ratings==<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #F9F9F9; border: 1px #AAA solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"<br />
! align=left width=20% bgcolor="F52887" | Episode<br />
! align=left width=45% bgcolor="F52887" | Date<br />
! align=left width=35% bgcolor="F52887"| Ratings<br>(Kanto Region)<br />
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| 01 || 04/17/2013 || 12.0%<br />
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| 02 || 04/24/2013 || 13.7%<br />
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| 03 || 05/01/2013 || 11.1%<br />
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| 04 || 05/08/2013 || 12.2%<br />
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| 05 || 05/15/2013 || 12.4%<br />
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| 06 || 05/22/2013 || 12.9%<br />
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| 07 || 05/29/2013 || 13.6%<br />
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| 08 || 06/05/2013 || 12.6%<br />
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| 09 || 06/12/2013 || 12.4%<br />
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| 10 || 06/19/2013 || 16.7%<br />
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! colspan=2 | Average || 13.0%<br />
|}<br />
Source: [http://www.videor.co.jp/ Video Research, Ltd.]<br />
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==External Links==<br />
* [http://www.fujitv.co.jp/fujitv/news/pub_2013/i/130129-i013.html Fuji TV announcement page]<br />
* [http://www.fujitv.co.jp/kazoku-game/index.html Official Website]<br />
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