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Foster Daddy, Tora!

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Director
  
Yoji Yamada

Initial DVD release
  
1999 (Japan)

Duration
  

Language
  
Japanese

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Music director
  
Naozumi Yamamoto

Country
  
Japan

Foster Daddy, Tora! movie poster
Release date
  
December 27, 1980

Writer
  
Yoshitaka Asama, Yoji Yamada

Cast
  
Kiyoshi Atsumi
(Torajiro Kuruma),
Ran Ito
(Sumire),
Chieko Baisho
(Sakura Suwa),
Chishu Ryu
(Gozensama),
Gin Maeda
(Hiroshi)

Similar movies
  
Otoko wa Tsurai yo movies

Foster Daddy, Tora! (男はつらいよ 寅次郎かもめ歌, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirō Kamome Uta) aka Torasan's Song of the Seagull is a 1980 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Ran Itō as his love interest or "Madonna". Foster Daddy, Tora! is the twenty-sixth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

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Synopsis

Tor-san takes care of the teenage daughter of a friend after he dies. He takes the girl to Tokyo where she wishes to study, and becomes worried over her romantic life.

Cast

  • Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō
  • Chieko Baisho as Sakura
  • Ran Itō as Sumire
  • Shimojo Masami as Kuruma Tatsuzō
  • Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajiro's aunt)
  • Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
  • Hayato Nakamura as Mitsuo Suwa
  • Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetarō Katsura)
  • Gajirō Satō as Genkō
  • Chishū Ryū as Gozen-sama
  • Takehiro Murata as Sadao Kikuchi
  • Tatsuo Matsumura as Professor Hayashi

    • Critical appraisal

    Kiyoshi Atsumi was nominated for the Best Actor prize at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony for his roles in Foster Daddy, Tora! and the following entry in the series, Tora-san's Love in Osaka (1981). Stuart Galbraith IV writes that Foster Daddy, Tora! is one of the top films in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series, and "like the best entries, both funny and sweet". The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Foster Daddy, Tora! three and a half out of five stars.

    Availability

    Foster Daddy, Tora! was released theatrically on December 27, 1980. In Japan, the film has been released on videotape in 1996, and in DVD format in 1999, 2002, and 2008.

    References

    Foster Daddy, Tora! Wikipedia
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    Foster Daddy, Tora! IMDb