A Sandcastle Model Home Family
砂の上のロビンソン

Junichi Suzuki/1989/105 mins

Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 18:30
Doors open at 17:45 No admittance after 19:00

 

This comic social satire tells the story of the extremely average Kido family whose family dream comes true when they win the chance to live as a ‘model family’ in an estate agent’s show-house for a year. If they can fulfil a year’s contract showing prospective buyers around the show-house, the property is theirs to keep...

 

However despite at first seeming like the ideal set-up, the intrusion on their private lives and the pressure of always having to appear perfect soon becomes too much for the Kido family, and their dream slowly starts to lose its lustre...

 

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