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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

Tora-san Confesses TORASAN CONFESSES SHOCHIKU FILMS

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)

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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

  • Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō
  • Chieko Baisho as Sakura
  • Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo (Sakura's son)
  • Kumiko Goto as Izumi Oikawa (Mitsuo's girlfriend)
  • Hideko Yoshida as Seikō
  • Shimojo Masami as Kuruma Tatsuzō
  • Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajirō's aunt)
  • Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetarō Katsura)
  • Gajirō Satō as Genkō
  • Keiroku Seki as Ponshū

    • 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

    Tora-san Confesses Wikipedia
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    Tora-san Confesses IMDb


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