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Director
  
Yoji Yamada

Film series
  
Otoko wa Tsurai yo

Duration
  

Language
  
Japanese

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Romance

Music director
  
Naozumi Yamamoto

Country
  
Japan

Tora san, the Go Between movie poster
Release date
  
August 3, 1985 (1985-08-03)

Writer
  
Yoji Yamada, Yoshitaka Asama, Yoji Yamada (characters)

Cast
  
Kanako Higuchi
,
Jun Miho
(Akemi),
Kiyoshi Atsumi
(Torajiro Kuruma),
Chieko Baisho
(Sakura Suwa),
Hidetaka Yoshioka
(Mitsuo)

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Tora-san, the Go-Between (男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋愛塾, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirō Ren'aijuku) is a 1985 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kanako Higuchi as his love interest or "Madonna". Tora-san, the Go-Between is the thirty-fifth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

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Synopsis

In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman's health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-san falls in love with the old woman's daughter, but winds up acting as a go-between for her and a young law student.

Cast

  • Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō
  • Chieko Baisho as Sakura
  • Mitsuru Hirata as Tamio Sakata
  • Kanako Higuchi as Wakana Egami
  • Shimojo Masami as Kuruma Tatsuzō
  • Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajiro's aunt)
  • Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetarō Katsura)
  • Gajirō Satō as Genkō
  • Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo Suwa
  • Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
  • Keiroku Seki as Ponshū
  • Critical appraisal

    Series composer Naozumi Yamamoto was nominated for Best Music Score at the Japan Academy Prize for his work on Tora-san, the Go-Between. Though commenting that the film opens with an especially funny dream-sequence satirizing The Ballad of Narayama Stuart Galbraith IV judges this film to be one of the weaker of the series. It treads no new ground for the series, instead putting Tora-san in situations in which he had been before. The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san, the Go-Between three and a half out of five stars.

    Availability

    Tora-san, the Go-Between was released theatrically on August 3, 1985. In Japan, the film has been released on videotape in 1987 and 1996, and in DVD format in 2000, 2005, and 2008.

    References

    Tora-san, the Go-Between Wikipedia
    Tora-san, the Go-Between IMDb