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1987 Japanese film
Tora-san Goes North
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Directed by
| Yoji Yamada
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Written by
| Yoji Yamada
Yoshitaka Asama
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Produced by
| Kiyoshi Shimizu
Hiroshi Fukazawa
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Starring
| Kiyoshi Atsumi
Toshir? Mifune
Keiko Takeshita
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Cinematography
| Tetsuo Takaba
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Edited by
| Iwao Ishii
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Music by
| Naozumi Yamamoto
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Distributed by
| Shochiku
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Release date
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- August 15, 1987
(
1987-08-15
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Running time
| 107 minutes
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Country
| Japan
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Language
| Japanese
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Tora-san Goes North
(
男はつらいよ 知床慕情
,
Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Shiretoko Boj?
)
aka
Torasan, Remind Shiretoke
[1]
is a 1987 Japanese comedy film directed by
Yoji Yamada
. It stars
Kiyoshi Atsumi
as Torajir? Kuruma (Tora-san), Keiko Takeshita as the film's "Madonna", and
Toshiro Mifune
as Takeshita's father.
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Tora-san Goes North
is the thirty-eighth entry in the popular, long-running
Otoko wa Tsurai yo
series.
Synopsis
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When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested.
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Cast
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Critical appraisal
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Toshir? 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."
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Kevin Thomas of the
Los Angeles Times
states that this entry in the series is a "little tougher-minded and a little less sentimental than usual, which is all to the good" and that Yamada had "created a role ideal for Mifune."
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The German-language site molodezhnaja gives
Tora-san Goes North
three and a half out of five stars.
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Availability
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Tora-san Goes North
was released theatrically on August 15, 1987.
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In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1996, and in DVD format in 1997, 2002, and 2008.
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English
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German
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Japanese
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