World-renowned photographer Ohyama Chikako adapts Shibushige Akiko's bestseller "Family Disease" into a film! A star-studded cast including Koide Keisuke and Tomomi delivers a powerful performance in "The Family Bomb of the Reiwa Era"

Photographer and film director Ohyama Chikako has adapted Shibushige Akiko's bestselling essay "Family Disease" (Gentosha Shinsho, cumulative sales exceeding 600,000 copies) into a much-anticipated film. The film will be released nationwide from June 26, 2026, at Uplink Kichijoji, Ikebukuro HUMAX Cinemas, and other theaters (release extended).

Director Ohyama is known as a world-renowned photographer who has worked with British Vogue, among others, and is also planning a photo exhibition titled "Afterimage of Memory." In this work, she utilizes her long-standing "gaze" as a photographer and deep human insight backed by life experience to construct a visual world where the cruelty and poetry of family pathology coexist.

While continuing the tradition of Japanese cinema, such as Yasujiro Ozu's tranquil family images and Yuya Isii's re-examination of family myths, this work stands out as a **black comedy-filled "family bomb" of the Reiwa era.** It depicts the absurdity and madness of modern people clinging to what is ordinary, with poison and visual beauty.

【Stage Greetings and Talk Event Information】

Stage greetings by Director Ohyama Chikako are being continuously held. Please check the theater's HP for details.

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Director's Directing Philosophy

● Neither escaping happy endings nor violent darkness.

● In the midst of mundane daily life, suddenly inserting extreme deformation. This is the rhythm of Shibushige's essays themselves.

● Without exaggerating emotions, stating facts as if they were temperature. There is passion and decision hidden within.

● Not allowing easy emotional processing like "I cried" or "I felt refreshed." Confronting the bewilderment of "I don't know how I should feel." That is the correct response.

● While retaining the coldness of the original work, the unyielding attitude, the strength of not being dominated by "should," and the cruelty of family bonds, it is "translated" from literature into film, a different language.

● Not "too faithful reproduction," but layering episodes to "keep the original work alive," gradually making the audience realize. Aiming for an experience where, after watching, questions like "What is family?", "What are parent and child?", "How should I live?" remain, and the taken-for-granted collapses with a sound.

The closest humans (family) are the most cruel. Ten years after Shibushige Akiko shattered the illusion of family. The disease of the original work now oozes more pus on the screen. The shocking black comedy "Family Disease," which confronts the "family faith" of modern Japan head-on, will be released nationwide in sequence at Uplink Kichijoji, Ikebukuro HUMAX Cinemas, and other theaters.

The original work is Shibushige Akiko's bestseller, which has recorded cumulative sales of several million copies.

At the time of release, this controversial work, which caused a big ripple across Japan, is being adapted into a much-anticipated theatrical film by former fashion advertising photographer Ohyama Chikako.

With the sharp gaze of a photographer and refined visual beauty, it has been completed as a group drama filled with black humor and uneasy tension.

The collapse and madness of those who continue to act out the "ideal family" are depicted with a strange tension unique to Director Ohyama, where laughter and eeriness coexist.

Cast: Takahiro Fujimoto, Tomomi, Eri Watanabe, Keisuke Koide, Ai Tsubaki, Wakaba Hiroi, Ken Terauchi

《STORY》

Junichiro Tahara (Takahiro Fujimoto), a bestselling mystery novelist, has his life controlled by his powerful wife, Mariko (Tomomi), and his original talent remains dormant. Yuji Matsubara (Ken Terauchi), a former elite salaryman, continues to play the role of a fake executive even after retirement, unable to disappoint his mother's expectations, while dealing with his son who has become a hikikomori. And Maria Kuroki (Wakaba Hiroi), who attends a famous girls' high school, is cornered as rumors spread throughout the school that her mother, Reiko (Ai Tsubaki), is an AV actress.

In front of the pretense and deception that these three families harbor, appears Shigeru Fujita (Keisuke Koide), a new writer who won a literary award with nudity as the theme. A homeless woman (Eri Watanabe) living freely in the park appears quietly as a completely different existence from them.

Stability named unfreedom or loneliness named freedom—on a certain typhoon night, their destinies intersect violently.

Comments from the Cast

Do you really know about family, which should be the closest? Or do you not know the truth? The disease called family, the film and the original work are different things, and that's why there are new discoveries. Shibushige Akiko

Standing between genius and eccentricity, Ohyama Chikako has planned and continued shooting this film with her sensitivity alone.

There have been countless disagreements with the staff and heated discussions with the cast... However, this sharp and almost mad sensitivity is not something everyone has, and her talent was indispensable for this "Family Disease."

Above all, she has boundless love, strong feelings, and convictions for her work.

Her passion, which surpasses everyone, was terrifying and also made her approachable, but now, being able to create this beloved director and work together has become a great asset for me.

She pursued the expression of emotions such as her insistence on images and colors, passion, indignation, repression, and liberation to her satisfaction within the constraints, patiently waiting for the weather, light, and the actors' feelings, and shot. The scene of the naked bodies of Ooki and me, which was almost a one-take, is particularly memorable.

A work created by fully unleashing the immeasurable talent given by heaven. I think those who watch it will surely be captivated by Director Ohyama's mysterious worldview and will be a stone that makes you think about "family." Takahiro Fujimoto

I feel that "family" is sometimes a support and sometimes an existence that clings like a disease. It is ambiguous, troublesome, but I think it is certainly there.

Please come to the theater to touch the temperature as it is in the movie "Family Disease." Shima Kokoro

I liked Shibushige's book "Family Disease," and when I heard that this work would become a movie and that I was cast, I was surprised.

Family problems that every household has, detailed realism that resonates, I remember reading it all at once. Please also check out the visualized work. Tomomi

Stage Greetings Information

July 4 (Sat) Uplink Kichijoji Screening 13:30~ Talk 15:46~30 min Speaker Director Ohyama Chikako

July 5 (Sun) Uplink Kichijoji Screening 13:30~ Talk 15:46~30 min Speaker Naoki Sakai (Producer) Tomoko Matsumoto (Stylist) Director Ohyama Chikako Host Shizuko Mizuta

July 10 (Wed) Uplink Kyoto Director Ohyama Chikako

July 11 (Thu) DAI NIPPON TOSHO Screening 13:30~ Talk 15:46~30 min Speaker Director Ohyama Chikako

Theaters

[Tokyo] Uplink Kichijoji 6.26~

[Tokyo] Humax Ikebukuro 6.26~

[Nagano] Chishaku Theater 7.3~

[Kanagawa] Humax Yokosuka 7.10~

[Kyoto] Uplink Kyoto 7.10~

[Yamagata] Movie On Yamagata 7.10~

[Osaka] DAI NIPPON TOSHO 7.11~

[Tochigi] Oyama Cinema Roble 7.24~

~Aiming for nationwide expansion

SOUNDTRACK: Masaki Shinazaki | Akio Shinazaki

Theme Song "Psycho" Song TASUKU HATANAKA Yu Hatataka Lyrics: Kanata Okajima Composition: Jeff Miyahara Label: Lantis

【STAFF】 Original Work: Shibushige Akiko "Family Disease" Gentosha Shinsho Director & Screenplay: Ohyama Chikako Cinematography: Osamu Ichikawa Music: Masaki Shinazaki AR: Kazuhiko Tomita MA: Akira Okase Theme Song: "Psycho" Yu Hatataka Label Lantis Lyrics: