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Director
  
Yoji Yamada

Film series
  
Otoko wa Tsurai yo

Duration
  

Language
  
Japanese

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Romance

Music director
  
Naozumi Yamamoto

Country
  
Japan


Release date
  
August 6, 1983 (1983-08-06)

Writer
  
Yoji Yamada, Yoshitaka Asama, Yoji Yamada (characters)

Cast
  
Kiyoshi Atsumi
(Torajiro Kuruma),
Harumi Miyako
(Harumi Kyo),
Chieko Baisho
(Sakura Suwa),
Hidetaka Yoshioka
(Mitsuo),
Gin Maeda
(Hiroshi)

Otoko wa Tsurai yo movies
  
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Tora-san's Song of Love (男はつらいよ 旅と女と寅次郎, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Tabi to Onna to Torajirō) aka Torasan's Journey with a Lady is a 1983 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Harumi Miyako as his love interest or "Madonna". Tora-san's Song of Love is the thirty-first entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

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Synopsis

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets a young woman in Niigata who, unbeknownst to him, is a popular enka singer.

Cast

  • Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō
  • Chieko Baisho as Sakura
  • Harumi Miyako as Harumi Kyo
  • Shimojo Masami as Kuruma Tatsuzō
  • Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajiro's aunt)
  • Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
  • Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetarō Katsura)
  • Gajirō Satō as Genkō
  • Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo Suwa
  • Chishū Ryū as Gozen-sama
  • Takura Fujioka as Kitamura
  • Senri Sakurai as Mita
  • Bengal as Yoshioka
  • Noko Konoha as Tomiko
  • Chieko Nakakita as Hisako Shōji

    • Critical appraisal

    Stuart Galbraith IV considers Tora-san's Song of Love to be a minor entry in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series. The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san's Song of Love three and a half out of five stars.

    Availability

    Tora-san's Song of Love was released theatrically on August 6, 1983. In Japan, the film has been released on videotape in 1996, and in DVD format in 2002 and 2008.

    References

    Tora-san's Song of Love Wikipedia
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    Tora-sans Song of Love IMDb