Tora-san Goes North
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Yoshitaka Asama
Hiroshi Fukazawa
Toshirō Mifune
Keiko Takeshita
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| Directed by | Yoji Yamada |
| Written by | Yoji Yamada Yoshitaka Asama |
| Produced by | Kiyoshi Shimizu Hiroshi Fukazawa |
| Starring | Kiyoshi Atsumi Toshirō Mifune Keiko Takeshita |
| Cinematography | Tetsuo Takaba |
| Edited by | Iwao Ishii |
| Music by | Naozumi Yamamoto |
| Distributed by | Shochiku |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Tora-san Goes North (男はつらいよ 知床慕情, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Shiretoko Bojō) aka Torasan, Remind Shiretoke[1] is a 1987 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), Keiko Takeshita as the film's "Madonna", and Toshiro Mifune as Takeshita's father.[2] Tora-san Goes North is the thirty-eighth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.
Cast
- Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō[5]
- Chieko Baisho as Sakura
- Keiko Takeshita as Rinko
- Toshiro Mifune as Junkichi Ueno
- Keiko Awaji as Etsuko
- Shimojo Masami as Kuruma Tatsuzō
- Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajiro's aunt)
- Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
- Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo Suwa
- Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetarō Katsura)
- Jun Miho as Akemi
- Gajirō Satō as Genkō
- Chishū Ryū as Gozen-sama
- Issei Ogata as The doctor
Critical appraisal
Toshirō Mifune was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Japan Academy Prize for his role in Tora-san Goes North. He won awards for Best Supporting Actor at the Blue Ribbon Awards and the Mainichi Film Award ceremonies. Keiko Awaji was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Japan Academy Prize.[6] Stuart Galbraith IV writes that Tora-san Goes North is "funny, charming, and ultimately quite moving". The film unites Mifune and Keiko Awaji who had appeared together forty years earlier in Kurosawa's Stray Dog (1949). Noting that Mifune rarely found a good part in the last two decades of his career, Galbraith judges Tora-san Goes North to be "an utterly charming film that gives the great actor one of his last good roles."[4] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times states that this entry in the series is a "little tougher-minded and a little less sentimental than usual, which is all to the good" and that Yamada had "created a role ideal for Mifune."[7] The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san Goes North three and a half out of five stars.[8]