:Stage-Struck Tora-san

Tora-san returns from his travels throughout Japan to his family's home in Tokyo to find his uncle recovering from an illness. After a family fight erupts, he returns to the road and becomes friends with Tomekichi. When the pair come to Tokyo, they both fall in love with stage dancers.{{cite web |first=Stuart |last=Galbraith IV |authorlink= Stuart Galbraith IV|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/20644/tora-san-21-tora-sans-stage-struck/|title=Tora-san 21: Tora-san's Stage-Struck (Region 3) |date=2006-03-14|access-date=2010-01-19|publisher=DVD Talk}}{{cite web|url=http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/18863|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎わが道をゆく|access-date=2010-01-19|language=Japanese|publisher=Kinema Junpo|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309142206/http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/18863|archive-date=2012-03-09}}{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305843|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017231957/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305843|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-17|title=OTOKO WA TSURAIYO: TORAJIRO WAGA MICHI O YUKU (1978)|access-date=2010-01-19|publisher=British Film Institute}}

• Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō{{cite web |url= http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1978/db002270.htm|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎わが道をゆく|access-date=2010-01-19|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database}}
• Chieko Baisho as Sakura
• Nana Kinomi as Nanako Beni
• Tetsuya Takeda as Tomekichi Gotō
• Masami Shimojō as Kuruma Tatsuzō
• Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajiro's aunt)
• Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
• Hayato Nakamura as Mitsuo Suwa
• Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetarō Katsura)
• Gajirō Satō as Genkō
• Hiroshi Inuzuka
• Raita Ryū as Detective
• Chishū Ryū as Gozen-sama
• Shinobu Azusa as Shinobu Fuji

Kiyoshi Atsumi was nominated for Best Actor at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony for his work in Stage-Struck Tora-san and the following film in the series, Talk of the Town Tora-san (also 1978). Yoji Yamada was also nominated for Best Director for these two films.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078045/awards|title=Awards for Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro wagamichi wo yuku (1978)|access-date=2010-01-19|publisher=Internet Movie Database}}

Stuart Galbraith IV writes that Stage-Struck Tora-san is one of the weaker entries in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series. He notes that co-star Tetsuya Takeda, a popular comic actor in Japan at the time, comes across as hammy in western eyes. According to Galbraith, the film works best as a nostalgic look at late-1970s popular culture. The opening dream segment is a spoof of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and there are references to Pink Lady as well as glimpses into Japan's economic situation of the era. The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Stage-Struck Tora-san three out of five stars.{{cite web |url=http://www.molodezhnaja.ch/torasan21.htm|title=Tora-San's Stage-struck|access-date=2010-01-19|publisher= www.molodezhnaja.ch|language=German}}

Stage-Struck Tora-san was released theatrically on August 5, 1978.{{cite web|url=http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/13008|title=男はつらいよ 寅次郎わが道をゆく|access-date=2010-01-19|publisher=Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311074836/http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/13008|archive-date=2012-03-11}} In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1996, and in DVD format in 2002 and 2005.{{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=146402|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎わが道をゆく(1978)|access-date=2010-01-19|publisher=allcinema.net|language=Japanese}}

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• [http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie21/ Stage-Struck Tora-san] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615223435/http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie21/ |date=2013-06-15 }} at www.tora-san.jp (official site)

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