Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe

  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 109 min
  • Premiere: 1995. January 28.

The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume their fraudulent activities. Everything carries on smoothly until the eldest and the fourth sons' modus operandi go awry, the mother's lover runs off with another woman, and disasters strike one after another. This film is a collaboration between Yoichi Sai and Goro Kishitani following "All Under the Moon." The family business of the Ameya family is defrauding people. The matriarch, who keeps getting married and divorced, has five children with different fathers. The Ameya family chases after fortune and leaves a trail of trouble on their path.

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Goro Kishitani

Minoru Ameya

Moeko Ezawa

Matsu Ameya

Kazuya Takahashi

Susumu Ameya

Ittoku Kishibe

Kimio Hatsukaichi, Matsu's lover

Yoshiki Arizono

Detective

Jun Kunimura

Yoichi, Takashi's uncle

Akaji Maro

Kanji, Nobuko's father

Ruby Moreno

Ruby at 'Watermelon'

Sansei Shiomi

Moichi, Matsu's nephew

Koichi Ueda

Yoshida

Natsumi Nanase

Rosa Kogure

Hitomi Ishii

Nobuko, Takashi's wife

Shigeru Nakano

Takashi, Ameya, 1st son

Haruko Wanibuchi

Akiko Natsume

Art

Tsutomu Imamura

Art Direction

Crew

Shogo Ueno

Cinematography

Directing

Yoichi Sai

Director

Kunio Torii

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Shigeaki Mori

Producer

Yokichi Osato

Producer

Katsuhiko Aoki

Producer

Bong-ou Lee

Producer

Sound

Hikaru Ishikawa

Music Producer

Writing

Wishing Chong

Screenplay

Yoichi Sai

Screenplay

Art

Tsutomu Imamura

Art Direction

Crew

Shogo Ueno

Cinematography

Directing

Yoichi Sai

Director

Kunio Torii

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Shigeaki Mori

Producer

Yokichi Osato

Producer

Katsuhiko Aoki

Producer

Bong-ou Lee

Producer

Sound

Hikaru Ishikawa

Music Producer

Writing

Wishing Chong

Screenplay

Yoichi Sai

Screenplay