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Director
  
Yoji Yamada

Film series
  
Otoko wa Tsurai yo

Duration
  

Language
  
Japanese

7.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Cinematography
  
Tetsuo Takaha

Country
  
Japan

Tora san Goes Religious movie poster
Release date
  
December 28, 1983 (1983-12-28)

Writer
  
Yoshitaka Asama, Yoji Yamada

Cast
  
Kiyoshi Atsumi
(Kuruma Torajiro),
Chieko Baishô
(Sakura),
Chishû Ryû
(Priest),
Keiko Takeshita
(Tomoko),
Kiichi Nakai
(Kazumichi)

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Tora-san Goes Religious? (, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Kuchibue o Fuku Torajiro) aka Torasan Whistling is a 1983 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajiro Kuruma (Tora-san), and Keiko Takeshita as his love interest or "Madonna". Tora-san Goes Religious? is the thirty-second entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Traveling in Western Japan, Kuruma Torajiro visits Hiroshi's father's grave at a temple. As he leaves, the temple's priest and the priest's daughter invite him to tea.

Synopsis

When his travels bring him to Western Japan, Tora-san decides to pay his respects to the late Hyoichiro Suwa, his sisters father-in-law. He gets drunk with the priest at the temple, falling in love with the priests daughter in the process. When the priest is too hung-over to deliver a eulogy the next morning, Tora-san takes his place, with great success. Tora-sans sister and his brother-in-laws family show up for Hyoichiro Suwas memorial service, and an argument breaks out over his estate.

Cast

  • Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajiro
  • Chieko Baisho as Sakura
  • Keiko Takeshita as Tomoko
  • Kiichi Nakai as Kazumichi
  • Kaoru Sugita as Hiromi
  • Shimojo Masami as Kuruma Tatsuzo
  • Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajiros aunt)
  • Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
  • Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo Suwa
  • Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetaro Katsura)
  • Gajiro Sato as Genko
  • Chishu Ryu as Gozen-sama
  • Tatsuo Matsumura as Osho

    • Critical appraisal

    Tora-san Goes Religious? was the fifth highest earning film at Japanese box-offices in 1984. Stuart Galbraith IV ranks the film as one of the best in the series, noting that the "performances are excellent all-around". Galbraith observes that the films storyline was probably inspired by the recent death of the great film actor Takashi Shimura who had played the role of the deceased Hyoichiro Suwa in three previous Otoko wa Tsurai yo films. The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san Goes Religious? four out of five stars.

    Availability

    Tora-san Goes Religious? had was released in theaters on December 28, 1983.

    In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1987 and 1986, and in DVD format in 1998 and 2008.

    English

  • "OTOKO WA TSURAI YO KUCHIBUE O FUKU TORAJIRO (1983)". British Film Institute. Retrieved 2010-01-29. 
  • "OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -KUCHIBUE O FUKU TORAJIRO". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-01-29. 
  • Otoko wa tsurai yo: Kuchibue wo fuku Torajiro (1983) at the Internet Movie Database
  • Galbraith IV, Stuart (2006-07-06). "Tora-san 32: Tora-san Goes Religious (Region 3)". DVD Talk. Retrieved 2010-01-29. 

    • German

  • "Tora-San Goes Religious" (in German). www.molodezhnaja.ch. Retrieved 2010-01-29. 

    • Japanese

  • (in Japanese). www.allcinema.net. Retrieved 2010-01-29. 
  • "?????? ????????". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Retrieved 2010-01-29. 
  • (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-01-29. 
  • (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 2010-01-29. 

    • References

    Tora-san Goes Religious? Wikipedia
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    Tora-san Goes Religious? IMDb Tora-san Goes Religious? themoviedb.org