Tora-san's Song of Love

Tora-san's Song of Love
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Yoji Yamada
Written by	Yoji Yamada Yoshitaka Asama
Starring	Kiyoshi Atsumi Harumi Miyako
Cinematography	Tetsuo Takaba
Edited by	Iwao Ishii
Music by	Naozumi Yamamoto
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	August 6, 1983 (1983-08-06)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Tora-san's Song of Love (男はつらいよ 旅と女と寅次郎, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Tabi to Onna to Torajirō) aka Torasan's Journey with a Lady^[1] is a 1983 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Harumi Miyako as his love interest or "Madonna".^[2] Tora-san's Song of Love is the thirty-first entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets a young woman in Niigata who, unbeknownst to him, is a popular enka singer.^[3][4][5]

• Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō^[6]
• Chieko Baisho as Sakura
• Harumi Miyako as Harumi Kyo
• Shimojo Masami as Kuruma Tatsuzō
• Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajiro's aunt)
• Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
• Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetarō Katsura)
• Gajirō Satō as Genkō
• Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo Suwa
• Chishū Ryū as Gozen-sama
• Takuya Fujioka as Kitamura
• Senri Sakurai as Mita
• Bengal as Yoshioka
• Noko Konoha as Tomiko
• Chieko Nakakita as Hisako Shōji

Stuart Galbraith IV considers Tora-san's Song of Love to be a minor entry in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.^[4] The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san's Song of Love three and a half out of five stars.^[7]

Tora-san's Song of Love was released theatrically on August 6, 1983.^[8] In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1996, and in DVD format in 2002 and 2008.^[9]

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• "OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -TABI TO ONNA TO TORAJIRO". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
• Otoko wa tsurai yo: Tabi to onna to Torajirô (1983) at IMDb
• Galbraith IV, Stuart (2007-01-24). "Tora-san 31: Tora-san's Song of Love (Region 3)". DVD Talk. Retrieved 2010-01-21.

• "Tora-San's Song of Love" (in German). www.molodezhnaja.ch. Retrieved 2010-01-21.

• 男はつらいよ 旅と女と寅次郎 (1983) (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
• "男はつらいよ 旅と女と寅次郎". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Archived from the original on 2014-03-18. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
• 男はつらいよ 旅と女と寅次郎 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
• 男はつらいよ 旅と女と寅次郎 (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2010-01-21.

• Tora-san's Song of Love Archived 2014-07-29 at the Wayback Machine at www.tora-san.jp (official site)