The debut film of the director of the international hit comedy SHALL WE DANCE (1996) follows the Mamiya family after the latest arrival of the voluptuous new bride of over-sexed eldest son Kôichi. Kazuo sees his new sister-in-law as a source of release from study stress, while his sister Akiko, after donning her Office Lady uniform heads straight to a workplace that offers much more in the way of financial incentive. Suo’s only ever pink film is a bawdy pastiche of the works of Ozu Yasujirô, presenting this far-from-typical family through idiosyncratic editing and compositional. The results are amongst the wittiest and entertaining in the entire history of pinku eiga. Biography Born in 1956, Suô Masayuki began as an assistant director on Takahashi Banmei’s WOLF (Ôkami, 1982) and Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s feature debut KADAGAWA PERVERT WARS (Kandagawa inran sensô, 1983) before directing his only pink film ABNROMAL FAMILY: OLDER BROTHE’S BRIDE (Hentai kazoku: Aniki no yome-san). He made his mainstream debut with FANCY DANCE (1989) and won the Japanese Academy award for Best Film twice, for SUMO DO, SUMO DON’T (Shiko funjatta, 1992) and the comedy drama SHALL WE DANCE? (1996). Director Filmography (selected) ABNORMAL FAMILY: OLDER BROTHER’S BRIDE (Hentai kazoku: Aniki no yome-san, 1984) FANCY DANCE (1989) SUMO DO, SUMO DON’T (Shiko funjatta, 1992) SHALL WE DANCE? (1996) I JUST DIDN’T DO IT (Soredemo boku wa yattenai, 2007) A TERMINAL TRUST (Tsui no shintaku, 2012) LADY MAIKO (Maiko wa redii, 2014)