Tora-san's Song of Love
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Yoshitaka Asama
Harumi Miyako
| Tora-san's Song of Love | |
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 Theatrical poster | |
| Directed by | Yoji Yamada |
| Written by | Yoji Yamada Yoshitaka Asama |
| Starring | Kiyoshi Atsumi Harumi Miyako |
| Cinematography | Tetsuo Takaba |
| Edited by | Iwao Ishii |
| Music by | Naozumi Yamamoto |
| Distributed by | Shochiku |
Release date |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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[1] 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".[2] Tora-san's Song of Love is the thirty-first entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.
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.[3][4][5]
Cast
- Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō[6]
- 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
- Takuya 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.[4] The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san's Song of Love three and a half out of five stars.[7]