Tora sans Matchmaker
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Director Yoji Yamada Initial DVD release 2000 Duration Language Japanese | 7/10 Genre Comedy, Drama Film series Otoko wa Tsurai yo Country Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date December 25, 1993 (1993-12-25) Writer Yoshitaka Asama, Yoji Yamada Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi (Torajiro Kuruma), Keiko Matsuzaka (Yoko Sakaide), Chieko Baisho (Sakura Suwa), Gin Maeda (Hiroshi), Hisao Dazai (Umetaro)Similar movies Kiyoshi Atsumi movies, Comedies |
Vagabond Tora-San meets a beautiful woman while on an island seeking his runaway nephew.
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Tora-sans Matchmaker (, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajiro no Endan) is a 1993 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajiro Kuruma (Tora-san), and Keiko Matsuzaka as his love interest or "Madonna". Tora-sans Matchmaker is the forty-sixth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.
Cast
Critical appraisal
For their work in Tora-sans Matchmaker, the Japan Academy Prize awarded Yoji Yamada for Best Director and Screenplay, Yoshitaka Asama for Best Screenplay, and Isao Suzuki for Best Sound. Also nominated at the Japan Academy Prize were Yutaka Yokoyama and Mitsuo Degawa for Best Sound and Iwao Ishii for Best Editing. The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-sans Matchmaker three and a half out of five stars.
Availability
Tora-sans Matchmaker was released theatrically on December 25, 1993. In Japan, the film has been released on videotape in 1994 and 1996, and in DVD format in 2000 and 2008.
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References
Tora-sans Matchmaker WikipediaTora-sans Matchmaker IMDb