Tora san Plays Daddy

Tora-san Plays Daddy (男はつらいよ寅次郎物語, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirō Monogatari) aka Torasan's Tale is a 1987 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Akiyoshi as his love interest or "Madonna". Tora-san Plays Daddy is the thirty-ninth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

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Cast

Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō

Chieko Baisho as Sakura

Kumiko Akiyoshi as Takako

Midori Satsuki as Fude

Shimojo Masami as Kuruma Tatsuzō

Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajiro's aunt)

Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo Suwa

Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetarō Katsura)

Jun Miho as Akemi

Gajirō Satō as Genkō

Chishū Ryū as Gozen-sama

Yūichirō Itō as Hideyoshi

Tatsuo Matsumura as Kikuda

Critical appraisal

Kiyoshi Atsumi won the Best Actor title at the Nikkan Sports Film Award ceremony for his role in Tora-san Plays Daddy. Nominations for the film at the Japan Academy Prize were for Best Director and Best Screenplay (Yoji Yamada), Best Supporting Actress (Kumiko Akiyoshi), and Best Sound (Isao Suzuki and Takashi Matsumoto). The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san Plays Daddy three and a half out of five stars.

Availability

Tora-san Plays Daddy was released theatrically on December 26, 1987. In Japan, the film has been released on videotape in 1989 and 1996, and in DVD format in 2002, 2005, and 2008.

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Critical appraisal

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