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Directed by | Yoji Yamada |
Produced by | Kiyoshi Shimizu Hiroshi Fukazawa |
Written by | Yoji Yamada Yoshitaka Asama |
Starring | Kiyoshi Atsumi Toshirō Mifune Keiko Takeshita |
Music by | Naozumi Yamamoto |
Cinematography | Tetsuo Takaba |
Editing by | Iwao Ishii |
Distributed by | Shochiku |
Release date(s) | August 15, 1987 |
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 Bojo ) aka Torasan, Remind Shiretoke[1] is a 1987 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Keiko Takeshita as his love interest or "Madonna".[2] Tora-san Goes North is the thirty-eighth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.
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When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secrety interested.[3][4]
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] The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san Goes North three and a half out of five stars.[7]
Tora-san Goes North was released theatrically on August 15, 1987.[8] In Japan, the film has been released on videotape in 1996, and in DVD format in 1997, 2002, and 2008.[9]
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