:Tora-san's Love Call
{{Infobox film
| name = Tora-san's Love Call
| image = Tora-san's Love Call.jpg
| caption = Theatrical poster
| director = Yoji Yamada
| producer =
| writer = Yoji Yamada
Yoshitaka Asama
| starring = Kiyoshi Atsumi
Junko Ikeuchi
| music = Naozumi Yamamoto
| cinematography = Tetsuo Takaba
| editing = Iwao Ishii
| distributor = Shochiku
| released = {{Film date|1971|11|20}}
| runtime = 114 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
| budget =
| gross =
}}
{{nihongo|Tora-san's Love Call|男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋歌|Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajiro Koiuta}} aka Tora-san's Love Song{{cite web |url=http://www.citwf.com/film257083.htm|title=OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -TORAJIRO KOIUTA|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=Complete Index to World Film}} is a 1971 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Junko Ikeuchi as his love interest or "Madonna".{{cite web |url=http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie08/madonna.html|title=男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋歌 (Madonna)|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=www.tora-san.jp|language=Japanese}} (official site) Tora-san's Love Call is the eighth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.
Synopsis
Hoping to find rest from his wandering life, Tora-san returns home. He becomes infatuated with a widow and leaves to travel again, keeping his feelings secret.{{cite web|url=http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/19620|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋歌|access-date=2010-01-18|language=Japanese|publisher=Kinema Junpo|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309141458/http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/19620|archive-date=2012-03-09}}{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305838|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017211927/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305838|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-17|title=OTOKO WA TSURAI YO TORAJIRO KOIUTA (1971)|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=British Film Institute}}
Cast
- Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō{{cite web |url= http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1971/cu003370.htm|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋歌|access-date=2010-01-18|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database}}
- Chieko Baisho as Sakura
- Takashi Shimura as Hyōichirō Suwa (Hiroshi's father)
- Shin Morikawa as Tatsuzō (Torajiro's uncle)
- Chishū Ryū as Gozen-sama
- Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
- Yasukiyo Umeno as Tsuyoshi Suwa
- Takanobu Hozumi as Osamu Suwa
- Yoshio Yoshida as Director of travelling company of actors
- Chieko Misaki as Torajiro's aunt
- Hisao Dazai as Tarō Ume
Critical appraisal
For his work on Tora-san's Love Call, and the previous two entries in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series, Tora-san, the Good Samaritan, and Tora-san's Shattered Romance (all 1971), Yoji Yamada tied for Best Director at the Mainichi Film Awards with Masahiro Shinoda.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067540/awards|title=Awards for Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro koiuta (1971)|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=Internet Movie Database}} The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san's Love Call three and a half out of five stars.{{cite web |url=http://www.molodezhnaja.ch/torasan8.htm|title=Tora-San's Love Call|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=www.molodezhnaja.ch|language=German}}
Availability
Tora-san's Love Call was released theatrically on November 20, 1971.{{cite web|url=http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/11679|title=男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋歌|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226042030/http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/11679|archive-date=2012-02-26}} In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1983 and 1995, and in DVD format in 1995 and 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=143784|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋歌(1971)|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=allcinema.net|language=Japanese}}
References
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Bibliography
=English=
- {{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305838|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017211927/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305838|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-17|title=OTOKO WA TSURAI YO TORAJIRO KOIUTA (1971)|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=British Film Institute}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.citwf.com/film257083.htm|title=OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -TORAJIRO KOIUTA|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=Complete Index to World Film}}
- {{IMDb title|0067540|Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro koiuta (1971)}}
=German=
- {{cite web |url=http://www.molodezhnaja.ch/torasan8.htm|title=Tora-San's Love Call|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=www.molodezhnaja.ch|language=German}}
=Japanese=
- {{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=143784|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋歌(1971)|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=allcinema.net|language=Japanese}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/11679|title=男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋歌|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226042030/http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/11679|archive-date=2012-02-26}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1971/cu003370.htm|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋歌|access-date=2010-01-18|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/19620|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋歌|access-date=2010-01-18|language=Japanese|publisher=Kinema Junpo|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309141458/http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/19620|archive-date=2012-03-09}}
External links
- [http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie08/ Tora-san's Love Call] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005131353/http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie08/ |date=2012-10-05 }} at www.tora-san.jp (official site)
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Category:Films directed by Yoji Yamada
Category:1970s Japanese-language films
Category:Otoko wa Tsurai yo films
Category:Japanese sequel films