The Family Game: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The Family Game was originally an award winning novel by Honma Yohei that was adapted for television drama and film. 30 years later, the story returns to the screen again on Fuji TV, Wednesday nights. Sakurai Sho stars in this troubling drama as the private tutor Yoshimoto Koya. Koya becomes a tutor to a student, Numata Shigeyuki, an underachiever on the verge of dropping out of middle school. Expecting immediate results, Shigeyuki's father makes a deal with Koya that if he could make Shigeyuki return to school within a week, he would receive a 100,000 yen bonus. Koya accepts the offer, replying that he would only need 5 days to complete the mission but demands that no one should interfere with his methodology in doing so.

Series details

• Title: The Family Game
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Premiere date: 2013-04-17
• Final broadcast date listed: 2013-06-19
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Fuji TV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 54 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 15305
• IMDb ID: tt2661776
• TVDB ID: 268888

Cast and credited roles

• Sho Sakurai — Yoshimoto Koya
• Kamiki Ryunosuke — Numata Shinichi
• Uragami Seishuu — Numata Shigeyuki

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2013-04-17; final listed air date 2013-06-19.

Source and licence

Adapted from The Family Game on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.