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Tora sans Runaway

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Director
  
Yoji Yamada

Film series
  
Otoko wa Tsurai yo

Duration
  

Language
  
Japanese

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Music director
  
Naozumi Yamamoto

Country
  
Japan

Tora sans Runaway movie poster

Release date
  
August 26, 1970 (1970-08-26)

Writer
  
Akira Miyazaki, Azuma Morisaki, Yoji Yamada

Cast
  
Kiyoshi Atsumi
(Torajiro Kuruma),
Chieko Baishô
(Sakura Suwa),
Aiko Nagayama
(Setsuko Miura)

Similar movies
  
Otoko wa Tsurai yo movies, Comedies

Tora-san's Runaway (男はつらいよ 望郷篇, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Bōkyō hen) aka Tora-san Homebound is a 1970 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Aiko Nagayama as his love interest or "Madonna". Tora-san's Runaway is the fifth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

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Cast

  • Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajiro
  • Chieko Baisho as Sakura
  • Aiko Nagayama as Setsuko Miura
  • Hisashi Igawa as Tsuyoshi Kimura
  • Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
  • Taisaku Akino as Noboru Kawamata
  • Masamichi Matsuyama as Sumio Ishida
  • Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajiro's aunt)
  • Hisao Dazai as Tarō Ume
  • Tokuko Sugiyama as Setsuko's mother, Tomiko
  • Gajirō Satō as Genkichi (Man at the Temple)
  • Michio Kida as Masayoshi Takioka

    • Critical appraisal

    Chieko Baisho was given the Best Actress award at both the Mainichi Film Awards and the Kinema Junpo Awards for her roles in Tora-san's Runaway and Kazoku. Yoji Yamada and Akira Miyazaki were also given the Best Screenplay award at those two ceremonies for their work on those two films.

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

    Availability

    Tora-san's Runaway was released theatrically on August 26, 1970. In Japan, the film has been released on videotape in 1983 and 1995, and in DVD format in 2005 and 2008.

    References

    Tora-san's Runaway Wikipedia
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    Tora-sans Runaway IMDb Tora-sans Runaway themoviedb.org