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Director
  
Yoji Yamada

Initial DVD release
  
2000

Duration
  

Language
  
Japanese

7/10
IMDb

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

  • Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajiro
  • Chieko Baisho as Sakura
  • Keiko Matsuzaka as Yoko Sakaide
  • Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo Suwa
  • Shimojo Masami as Kuruma Tatsuzo
  • Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajiros aunt)
  • Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetaro Katsura)
  • Gajiro Sato as Genko
  • Keiroku Seki as Ponshu
  • 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.

    English

  • Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro no endan (1993) at the Internet Movie Database
  • German

  • "Tora-sans Matchmaker" (in German). www.molodezhnaja.ch. Retrieved 2010-02-01. 
  • Japanese

  • (in Japanese). www.allcinema.net. Retrieved 2010-02-01. 
  • "?????? ??????". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Retrieved 2010-02-01. 
  • (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-02-01. 
  • (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 2010-02-01. 
  • References

    Tora-sans Matchmaker Wikipedia
    Tora-sans Matchmaker IMDb