Tora sans Promise
7.2 /10 1 Votes
Director Yoji Yamada Film series Otoko wa Tsurai yo Duration Language Japanese | 7/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Music director Naozumi Yamamoto Country Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date December 28, 1981 (1981-12-28) Writer Yoshitaka Asama, Yoji Yamada Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi (Torajiro Kuruma), Mikiko Otonashi , Chieko Baisho (Sakura Suwa), Kayoko Kishimoto , Hidetaka Yoshioka (Mitsuo)Similar movies Otoko wa Tsurai yo movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tora-san's Promise (男はつらいよ 寅次郎紙風船, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirō Kamifūsen) aka Torasan and a Paper Balloon is a 1981 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Mikiko Otonashi as his love interest or "Madonna". Tora-san's Promise is the twenty-eighth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.
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Synopsis
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all his ex-classmates, he resumes his travels. In Kyushu he meets an outspoken 18-year-old girl who becomes enamored of Tora-san and follows him around. One of Tora-san's old friends is terminally ill and makes Tora-san promise him to marry his wife once he is gone.
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Critical appraisal
Stuart Galbraith IV writes that Tora-san's Promise is a middle-quality entry in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series, though the series has a high standard. The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san's Promise three and a half out of five stars.
Availability
Tora-san's Promise was released theatrically on December 28, 1981. In Japan, the film has been released on videotape in 1986 and 1996, and in DVD format in 2002 and 2008.
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