Tora-san Makes Excuses

Tora-san Makes Excuses
Theatrical poster
Directed by Yoji Yamada
Produced by Kiyoshi Shimizu
Hiro Fukazawa
Written by Yoji Yamada
Yoshitaka Asama
Starring Kiyoshi Atsumi
Kumiko Goto
Music by Naozumi Yamamoto
Cinematography Tetsuo Takaba
Mitsumi Hanada
Edited by Iwao Ishii
Distributed by Shochiku
Release date
  • December 26, 1992 (1992-12-26)
Running time
 101 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Tora-san Makes Excuses (男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirō no Seishun) is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Goto as his nephew Mitsuo's Hidetaka Yoshioka love interest or "Madonna", Izumi.[1] It also co-stars Masatoshi Nagase, who plays Mitsuo's rival for Izumi's affection and Mari Natsuki as Izumi's mother. Tora-San Makes Excuses is the forty-fifth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Cast


Critical appraisal

The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san Makes Excuses three and a half out of five stars.[3]

Availability

Tora-san Makes Excuses was released theatrically on December 26, 1992.[4] In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1993 and 1996, and in DVD format in 2002 and 2008.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春 (Madonna)". www.tora-san.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-02-01. (official site)
  2. ↑ 男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
  3. ↑ "Tora-San Makes Excuses". www.molodezhnaja.ch (in German). Retrieved 2010-02-01.
  4. ↑ "男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
  5. ↑ 男はつらいよ　寅次郎の青春 (1992). www.allcinema.net (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-02-01.

Bibliography

English

  • "OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -TORAJIRO NO SEISHUN". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
  • Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro no seishun (1992) on IMDb

Japanese

  • 男はつらいよ　寅次郎の青春 (1992). www.allcinema.net (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-02-01.
  • "男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
  • 男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
  • 男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春 (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
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