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Director
  
Yoji Yamada

Film series
  
Otoko wa Tsurai yo

Duration
  

Language
  
Japanese

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Music director
  
Naozumi Yamamoto

Country
  
Japan

Tora san Loves an Artist movie poster

Release date
  
December 16, 1973 (1973-12-16)

Writer
  
Yoshitaka Asama, Yoji Yamada

Cast
  
Kiyoshi Atsumi
(Tora-San),
Keiko Kishi
(Ritsuko),
Chieko Baishô
(Sakura)

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Tora-san Loves an Artist (男はつらいよ 私の寅さん, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Watashi no Tora-san) aka Tora-san Goes French is a 1973 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Keiko Kishi as his love interest or "Madonna". Tora-san Loves an Artist is the twelfth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

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Synopsis

Tora-san watches the family shop while the rest of his family takes a vacation to Kyushu. An old friend introduces Tora-san to his sister Ritsuko, and he promptly falls in love with her. She is an artist and has no time for Tora-san.

Cast

  • Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō
  • Keiko Kishi as Ritsuko Yanagi
  • Takehiko Maeda as Fumihiko Yanagi
  • Chieko Baisho as Sakura
  • Tatsuo Matsumura as Ryūzō Azuma
  • Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajiro's aunt)
  • Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
  • Hayato Nakamura as Mitsuo Suwa
  • Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetarō Katsura)
  • Gajirō Satō as Genkō
  • Chishū Ryū as Gozen-sama

    • Critical appraisal

    Stuart Galbraith IV calls Tora-san Loves an Artist a "solid" entry in the series, which is "alternately sweet and touching, funny and biting." The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san Loves an Artist three and a half out of five stars.

    Availability

    Tora-san Loves an Artist was released theatrically on December 16, 1973. In Japan, the film has been released on videotape in 1995, and in DVD format in 2008.

    References

    Tora-san Loves an Artist Wikipedia
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