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Genre
  
Comedy

Music director
  
Naozumi Yamamoto

Country
  
Japan

7/10
IMDb

Director
  
Shunichi Kobayashi

Film series
  
Otoko wa Tsurai yo

Duration
  

Language
  
Japanese

Tora sans Grand Scheme movie poster

Release date
  
February 27, 1970 (1970-02-27)

Writer
  
Akira Miyazaki, Yoji Yamada (story)

Cast
  
(Torajiro Kuruma), (Hiroshi),
Gajirô Satô
(Genkichi), (Haruko),
Chishû Ryû
(Priest),
Chieko Misaki
(Tsune)

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Otoko wa Tsurai yo movies, Comedies

Tora-san's Grand Scheme (新・男はつらいよ, Shin Otoko wa Tsurai yo) is a 1970 Japanese comedy film directed by Shun'ichi Kobayashi. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Kuruma Torajirō (Tora-san), and Komaki Kurihara as his love interest or "Madonna". Tora-san's Grand Scheme is the fourth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

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Synopsis

Hoping to repay his family for the trouble he has caused them in the past, Torasan gambles and wins at the horse races. He plans to give his uncle and aunt a vacation in Hawaii, but the travel agent turns out to be a con-artist, and makes off with his money. Torasan falls in love with Haruko, a young kindergarten teacher who is renting a room in his uncle's home.

Cast

  • Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajiro
  • Chieko Baisho as Sakura
  • Komaki Kurihara as Haruko
  • Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajiro's aunt)
  • Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
  • Taisaku Akino as Noboru Kawamata
  • Gajirō Satō as Genkichi (Man at the Temple)
  • Critical appraisal

    The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san's Grand Scheme three out of five stars.

    Availability

    Tora-san's Grand Scheme was released theatrically on February 27, 1970. In Japan, the film has been released on videotape in 1989 and 1995, and in DVD format in 2000, 2005, and 2008. AnimEigo released the film on DVD in the US along with the other first four films in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series on November 24, 2009.

    References

    Tora-san's Grand Scheme Wikipedia
    Tora-sans Grand Scheme IMDbTora-sans Grand Scheme Rotten TomatoesTora-sans Grand Scheme themoviedb.org


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