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Tora-san Confesses

1991 Japanese film

Tora-san Confesses
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Yoji Yamada
Written by	Yoji Yamada Yoshitaka Asama
Produced by	Hiroshi Fukazawa
Starring	Kiyoshi Atsumi Kumiko Goto
Cinematography	Tetsuo Takaba Mitsumi Hanada
Edited by	Iwao Ishii
Music by	Naozumi Yamamoto
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	December 23, 1991 (1991-12-23)
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 Hideko Yoshida 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.

Cast[edit]

• Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō^[2]
• Chieko Baisho as Sakura
• Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo (Sakura's son)
• Kumiko Goto as Izumi Oikawa (Mitsuo's girlfriend)
• Hideko Yoshida as Seikō
• Shimojo Masami as Kuruma Tatsuzō
• Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajirō's aunt)
• Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetarō Katsura)
• Gajirō Satō as Genkō
• Keiroku Seki as Ponshū

Critical appraisal[edit]

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] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that this entry "is a charmer, full of the sentiment, humor and compassion that made the Tora-san movies always the most popular attraction" at Japanese language cinemas in Los Angeles.^[4] The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san Confesses three out of five stars.^[5]

Availability[edit]

Tora-san Confesses was released theatrically on December 23, 1991.^[6] In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1992 and 1996, and in DVD format in 2000 and 2005.^[7]

References[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

English[edit]

• "OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -TORAJIRO NO KOKUHAKU". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
• Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro no kokuhaku (1991)atIMDb

German[edit]

• "Tora-San Confesses" (in German). www.molodezhnaja.ch. Retrieved 2010-02-01.

Japanese[edit]

• 男はつらいよ 寅次郎の告白 (1991) (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
• "男はつらいよ 寅次郎の告白". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
• 男はつらいよ 寅次郎の告白 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
• 男はつらいよ 寅次郎の告白 (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2010-02-01.

External links[edit]

• Tora-san Confesses Archived 2015-07-23 at the Wayback Machine at www.tora-san.jp (official site)
• Tora-san ConfessesatIMDb

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