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:Foster Daddy, Tora!

{{Infobox film

| name = Foster Daddy, Tora!

| image = Foster Daddy, Tora!.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Yoji Yamada

| producer =

| writer = Yoji Yamada
Yoshitaka Asama

| starring = Kiyoshi Atsumi
Ran Itō

| music = Naozumi Yamamoto

| cinematography = Tetsuo Takaba

| editing = Iwao Ishii

| distributor = Shochiku

| released = {{Film date|1980|12|27}}

| runtime = 100 minutes

| country = Japan

| language = Japanese

| budget =

| gross =

}}

{{nihongo|Foster Daddy, Tora!|男はつらいよ 寅次郎かもめ歌|Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirō Kamome Uta}} aka Torasan's Song of the Seagull{{cite web |url=http://www.citwf.com/film257082.htm|title=OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -TORAJIRO KAMONE UTA|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=Complete Index to World Film}} is a 1980 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Ran Itō as his love interest or "Madonna".{{cite web |url=http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie26/madonna.html|title=男はつらいよ 寅次郎かもめ歌 (Madonna)|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=www.tora-san.jp|language=Japanese}} (official site) Foster Daddy, Tora! is the twenty-sixth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Synopsis

Tor-san takes care of the teenage daughter of a friend after he dies. He takes the girl to Tokyo where she wishes to study, and becomes worried over her romantic life.{{cite web|url=http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/17004|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎かもめ歌|access-date=2010-01-21|language=Japanese|publisher=Kinema Junpo|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322010948/http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/17004|archive-date=2012-03-22}}{{cite web |first=Stuart |last=Galbraith IV |authorlink= Stuart Galbraith IV|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/23297/tora-san-26-tora-sans-foster-daddy/|title=Tora-san 26: Tora-san's Foster Daddy (Region 3) |date=2006-08-18|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=DVD Talk}}{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305837|title=OTOKO WA TSURAI YO TORAJIRO KAMOMEUTA (1980)|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=British Film Institute|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017232058/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305837|archive-date=2012-10-17|url-status=dead}}

Cast

Critical appraisal

Kiyoshi Atsumi was nominated for the Best Actor prize at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony for his roles in Foster Daddy, Tora! and the following entry in the series, Tora-san's Love in Osaka (1981).{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079686/awards|title=Awards for Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro kamome uta (1980)|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=Internet Movie Database}} Stuart Galbraith IV writes that Foster Daddy, Tora! is one of the top films in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series, and "like the best entries, both funny and sweet". The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Foster Daddy, Tora! three and a half out of five stars.{{cite web |url=http://www.molodezhnaja.ch/torasan26.htm|title=Tora-San's Foster Daddy, 1980|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher= www.molodezhnaja.ch|language=German}}

Availability

Foster Daddy, Tora! was released theatrically on December 27, 1980.{{cite web|url=http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/13294|title=男はつらいよ 寅次郎かもめ歌|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222212752/http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/13294|archive-date=2014-02-22}} In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1996, and in DVD format in 1999, 2002, and 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=147457|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎かもめ歌 (1980)|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=allcinema.net|language=Japanese}}

References

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Bibliography

=English=

  • {{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305837|title=OTOKO WA TSURAI YO TORAJIRO KAMOMEUTA (1980)|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=British Film Institute|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017232058/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305837|archive-date=2012-10-17|url-status=dead}}
  • {{cite web |url=http://www.citwf.com/film257082.htm|title=OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -TORAJIRO KAMONE UTA|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=Complete Index to World Film}}
  • {{cite web |first=Stuart |last=Galbraith IV |authorlink= Stuart Galbraith IV|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/23297/tora-san-26-tora-sans-foster-daddy/|title=Tora-san 26: Tora-san's Foster Daddy (Region 3) |date=2006-08-18|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=DVD Talk}}

=German=

  • {{cite web |url=http://www.molodezhnaja.ch/torasan26.htm|title=Tora-San's Foster Daddy, 1980|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=www.molodezhnaja.ch|language=German}}

=Japanese=

  • {{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=147457|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎かもめ歌 (1980)|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=allcinema.net|language=Japanese}}
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/13294|title=男はつらいよ 寅次郎かもめ歌|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222212752/http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/13294|archive-date=2014-02-22}}
  • {{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1980/dd004170.htm|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎かもめ歌|access-date=2010-01-21|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database}}
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/17004|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎かもめ歌|access-date=2010-01-21|language=Japanese|publisher=Kinema Junpo|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322010948/http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/17004|archive-date=2012-03-22}}

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20140729043230/http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie26/ Foster Daddy, Tora!] at www.tora-san.jp (official site)
  • {{IMDb title|0079686}}

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Category:1980 films

Category:Films directed by Yoji Yamada

Category:1980 comedy films

Category:1980s Japanese-language films

Category:Otoko wa Tsurai yo films

Category:Shochiku films

Category:Films with screenplays by Yôji Yamada

Category:1980s Japanese films