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Directed by | Yoji Yamada |
Produced by | Hiroshi Fukazawa |
Written by | Yoji Yamada Yoshitaka Asama |
Starring | Kiyoshi Atsumi Kumiko Gotō |
Music by | Naozumi Yamamoto |
Cinematography | Tetsuo Takaba Mitsumi Hanada |
Editing by | Iwao Ishii |
Distributed by | Shochiku |
Release date(s) | December 23, 1991 |
Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Tora-san Confesses (男はつらいよ 寅次郎の告白 Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirō no Kokuhaku ) is a 1991 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Gotō as his love interest or "Madonna".[1] Tora-san Confesses is the forty-fourth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.
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Series Director Yoji Yamada and Yoshitaka Asama were nominated for Best Screenplay at the Japan Academy Prize for their work on Tora-san Confesses. Other nominations for the film at the ceremony were Mitsuo Degawa for Best Art Direction and Isao Suzuki and Takashi Matsumoto for Best Sound.[3] The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san Confesses three out of five stars.[4]
Tora-san Confesses was released theatrically on December 23, 1991.[5] In Japan, the film has been released on videotape in 1992 and 1996, and in DVD format in 2000 and 2005.[6]
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