Tora san, the Go Between
7.2 /10 1 Votes7.2
Film series Otoko wa Tsurai yo Duration Language Japanese | 7/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Romance Music director Naozumi Yamamoto Country Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date August 3, 1985 (1985-08-03) Cast Kanako Higuchi , Jun Miho (Akemi), (Torajiro Kuruma), (Sakura Suwa), (Mitsuo)Otoko wa Tsurai yo movies Tora-san - the Go-Between and Tora-sans Forbidden Love are part of the same movie series, Tora-san - the Go-Between and Tora-san to the Rescue are part of the same movie series, Tora-san - the Go-Between and Marriage Counselor Tora-san are part of the same movie series, Tora-san - the Go-Between and Tora-san Meets His Lordship are part of the same movie series, Tora-san - the Go-Between and Tora-san Goes North are part of the same movie series | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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
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 WikipediaTora-san, the Go-Between IMDb