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Tora-san, the Go-Between (1985)

Tora-san, the Go-Between (1985), directed by Yoji Yamada, starring Kiyoshi Atsumi and Chieko Baisho.

08/03/1985 BR Comedy 1h 48m

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Synopsis

In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman's health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-san falls in love with the old woman's daughter, but winds up acting as a go-between for her and a young law student.

  • 高羽哲夫Cinematography
  • Yoji YamadaDirector, Screenplay
  • 石井巌Editing
  • Naozumi YamamotoOriginal music

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Tora-san, the Go-Between (男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋愛塾, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirō Ren'aijuku) is a 1985 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kanako Higuchi as his love interest or "Madonna". Tora-san, the Go-Between is the thirty-fifth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

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Tora-san, the Go-Between (男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋愛塾, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirō Ren'aijuku) is a 1985 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kanako Higuchi as his love interest or "Madonna". Tora-san, the Go-Between is the thirty-fifth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Synopsis

In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman's health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-san falls in love with the old woman's daughter, but winds up acting as a go-between for her and a young law student.

Cast

Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō

Chieko Baisho as Sakura

Mitsuru Hirata as Tamio Sakata

Kanako Higuchi as Wakana Egami

Shimojo Masami as Kuruma Tatsuzō

Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajiro's aunt)

Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetarō Katsura)

Gajirō Satō as Genkō

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo Suwa

Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa

Keiroku Seki as Ponshū

Critical appraisal

Series composer Naozumi Yamamoto was nominated for Best Music Score at the Japan Academy Prize for his work on Tora-san, the Go-Between. Though commenting that the film opens with an especially funny dream-sequence satirizing The Ballad of Narayama Stuart Galbraith IV judges this film to be one of the weaker of the series. It treads no new ground for the series, instead putting Tora-san in situations in which he had been before. The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san, the Go-Between three and a half out of five stars.

Availability

Tora-san, the Go-Between was released theatrically on August 3, 1985. In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1987 and 1996, and in DVD format in 2000, 2005, and 2008.

References

Bibliography

English

"OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -TORAJIRO RENAIJUKU". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-01-31.

Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajirô ren'ai juku (1985) at IMDb

Galbraith IV, Stuart (2007-10-20). "Tora-san 35: Tora-san's The Go Between (Region 3)". DVD Talk. Retrieved 2010-01-31.

German

"Tora-San's The Go-Between" (in German). www.molodezhnaja.ch. Retrieved 2010-01-31.

Japanese

男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋愛塾 (1985) (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2010-01-31.

"男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋愛塾". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Archived from the original on 2012-03-11. Retrieved 2010-01-31.

男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋愛塾 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-01-31.

男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋愛塾 (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on 2012-06-23. Retrieved 2010-01-31.

External links

Tora-san, the Go-Between Archived 2014-07-29 at the Wayback Machine at www.tora-san.jp (official site)

Text from Tora-san, the Go-Between on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tora-san,_the_Go-Between

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Set in

  • Nagasaki Prefecture

Preceded by

  • Tora-san's Forbidden Love

Followed by

  • Tora-san's Island Encounter

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What is Tora-san, the Go-Between about?

Tora-san, the Go-Between: In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman's health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-san falls in love with the old woman's daughter, but winds up acting …

Who directed Tora-san, the Go-Between?

Tora-san, the Go-Between was directed by Yoji Yamada in 1985.

Who stars in Tora-san, the Go-Between?

The cast of Tora-san, the Go-Between includes Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Mitsuru Hirata, Masami Shimojō and Chieko Misaki.

How long is Tora-san, the Go-Between?

Tora-san, the Go-Between runs for 108 minutes, or 1h48.

What is the correct order of the Otoko wa Tsurai yo Collection films?

The Otoko wa Tsurai yo Collection franchise has 50 films in the catalogue. In release order: 男はつらいよ; 続・男はつらいよ; 男はつらいよ フーテンの寅; 新・男はつらいよ; 男はつらいよ 望郷篇; 男はつらいよ 純情篇; 男はつらいよ 奮闘篇; 男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋歌.

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