Tora san Confesses
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Director Yoji Yamada Film series Otoko wa Tsurai yo Duration Language Japanese | 6.8/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama Music director Naozumi Yamamoto Country Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date December 23, 1991 (1991-12-23) Writer Yoshitaka Asama, Yoji Yamada Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi (Torajiro Kuruma), Kumiko Goto (Izumi Oikawa), Chieko Baisho (Sakura Suwa), Hideko Yoshida (Seiko), Hidetaka Yoshioka (Mitsuo)Similar movies Otoko wa Tsurai yo movies, Comedies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tora-san Confesses (男はつらいよ 寅次郎の告白, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirō no Kokuhaku) is a 1991 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Goto as his love interest or "Madonna". Tora-san Confesses is the forty-fourth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.
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Cast
Critical appraisal
Series Director Yoji Yamada and Yoshitaka Asama were nominated for Best Screenplay at the Japan Academy Prize for their work on Tora-san Confesses. Other nominations for the film at the ceremony were Mitsuo Degawa for Best Art Direction and Isao Suzuki and Takashi Matsumoto for Best Sound. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that this entry "is a charmer, full of the sentiment, humor and compassion that made the Tora-san movies always the most popular attraction" at Japanese language cinemas in Los Angeles. The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san Confesses three out of five stars.
Availability
Tora-san Confesses was released theatrically on December 23, 1991. In Japan, the film has been released on videotape in 1992 and 1996, and in DVD format in 2000 and 2005.
References
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