:Tora-san's Lovesick

Tora-san returns home informing his family of his intention to marry. The plans are foiled when the woman's long-missing husband reappears. Later, Tora-san meets Utako from Tora-san's Dear Old Home (1972). Her husband has died, and, out of obligation, she is living with his demanding parents. Tora-san persuades her to come to Tokyo, where she meets her estranged father, an author. Torasan's romantic intentions with Utako come to nothing when she decides to devote her life to teaching mentally handicapped children.{{cite web|url=http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/28546|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋やつれ|access-date=2010-01-18|language=Japanese|publisher=Kinema Junpo|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309141618/http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/28546|archive-date=2012-03-09}}{{cite web |first=Stuart |last=Galbraith IV |authorlink= Stuart Galbraith IV|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/18502/tora-san-13-tora-sans-lovesick/|title=Tora-san 13: Tora-san's Lovesick (Region 3) |date=2005-10-31|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=DVD Talk}}{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305839|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017231855/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305839|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-17|title=OTOKO WA TSURAI YO TORAJIRO KOI YATSURE (1974)|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=British Film Institute}}

• Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō{{cite web |url= http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1974/cx002000.htm|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋やつれ|access-date=2010-01-18|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database}}
• Chieko Baisho as Sakura
• Sayuri Yoshinaga as Utako
• Tatsuo Matsumura 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
• Chishū Ryū as Gozen-sama
• Seiji Miyaguchi as Shūkichi Takami
• Toshie Takada as Kinuyo
• Motoko Takahashi as Midori

Stuart Galbraith IV writes that Tora-san's Lovesick is "another fine entry in this exceptional series", which he calls "one of Japanese cinema's undiscovered treasures". He judges that the troubled relationship between Utako and her father is one of the highlights of the film. According to Galbraith, Seiji Miyaguchi—who played Kyūzō, the sword-fighting expert in Seven Samurai—gives a subtle performance, portraying the father as "intimidating yet clearly well-meaning". The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san's Lovesick three and a half out of five stars.{{cite web |url=http://www.molodezhnaja.ch/torasan13.htm|title=Tora-San's Lovesick|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=www.molodezhnaja.ch|language=German}}

Tora-san's Lovesick was released theatrically on August 3, 1974.{{cite web|url=http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/12267|title=男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋やつれ|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226051849/http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/12267|archive-date=2012-02-26}} In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1995, and in DVD format in 2005 and 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=144802|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋やつれ (1974)|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=allcinema.net|language=Japanese}}

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305839|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017231855/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305839|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-17|title=OTOKO WA TSURAI YO TORAJIRO KOI YATSURE (1974)|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=British Film Institute}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.citwf.com/film257066.htm|title=OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -KOI YATSURE|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=Complete Index to World Film}}
• {{IMDb title|0071954|Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro koiyatsure (1974)}}
• {{cite web |first=Stuart |last=Galbraith IV |authorlink= Stuart Galbraith IV|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/18502/tora-san-13-tora-sans-lovesick/|title=Tora-san 13: Tora-san's Lovesick (Region 3) |date=2005-10-31|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=DVD Talk}}

• {{cite web |url=http://www.molodezhnaja.ch/torasan13.htm|title=Tora-San's Lovesick|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=www.molodezhnaja.ch|language=German}}

• {{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=144802|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋やつれ (1974)|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=allcinema.net|language=Japanese}}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/12267|title=男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋やつれ|access-date=2010-01-18|publisher=Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226051849/http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/12267|archive-date=2012-02-26}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1974/cx002000.htm|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋やつれ|access-date=2010-01-18|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database}}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/28546|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋やつれ|access-date=2010-01-18|language=Japanese|publisher=Kinema Junpo|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309141618/http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/28546|archive-date=2012-03-09}}

• [http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie13/ Tora-san's Lovesick] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616091133/http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie13/ |date=2013-06-16 }} at www.tora-san.jp (official site)

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