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Directed by | Shun'ichi Kobayashi |
Written by | Yoji Yamada Akira Miyazaki |
Starring | Kiyoshi Atsumi Komaki Kurihara |
Music by | Naozumi Yamamoto |
Cinematography | Tetsuo Takaba |
Editing by | Iwao Ishii |
Distributed by | Shochiku |
Release date(s) | February 27, 1970 |
Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Tora-san's Grand Scheme (新・男はつらいよ Shin Otoko wa Tsurai yo ) is a 1970 Japanese comedy film directed by Shun'ichi Kobayashi. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Kuruma Torajirō (Tora-san), and Komaki Kurihara as his love interest or "Madonna".[1] Tora-san's Grand Scheme is the fourth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.
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Hoping to repay his family for the trouble he has caused them in the past, Torasan gambles and wins at the horse races. He plans to give his uncle and aunt a vacation in Hawaii, but the travel agent turns out to be a con-artist, and makes off with his money. Torasan falls in love with Haruko, a young kindergarten teacher who is renting a room in his uncle's home.[2][3][4]
The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san's Grand Scheme three out of five stars.[6]
Tora-san's Grand Scheme was released theatrically on February 27, 1970.[7] In Japan, the film has been released on videotape in 1989 and 1995, and in DVD format in 2000, 2005, and 2008.[8] AnimEigo released the film on DVD in the US along with the other first four films in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series on November 24, 2009.[9]
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