Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy

During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist.{{cite web|url=http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/17769|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 幸福の青い鳥|access-date=2010-01-31|language=Japanese|publisher=Kinema Junpo|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324083515/http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/17769|archive-date=2012-03-24}}{{cite web |first=Stuart |last=Galbraith IV |authorlink= Stuart Galbraith IV|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/26618/tora-san-37-tora-sans-bluebird-fantasy/|title=Tora-san 37: Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy (Region 3) |date=2007-02-16|access-date=2010-01-31|publisher=DVD Talk}}

• Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō{{cite web |url= http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1986/dj003350.htm|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 幸福の青い鳥|access-date=2010-01-31|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database}}
• Chieko Baisho as Sakura
• Etsuko Shihomi as Miho Shimazaki
• Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi as Kengo Kurata
• Shimojo Masami as Kuruma Tatsuzō
• Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajiro's aunt)
• Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
• Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo Suwa
• Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetarō Katsura)
• Gajirō Satō as Genkō
• Chishū Ryū as Gozen-sama
• Jun Miho as Akemi
• Issei Ogata

Stuart Galbraith IV judges this to be one of the weaker entries in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series, but still recommended. Perhaps the most notable aspect of the film is that the co-star, Etsuko Shihomi, was the star of the Sister Street Fighter series. It was on the set of Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy that she met Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi, whom she married the following year. The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy three and a half out of five stars.{{cite web |url=http://www.molodezhnaja.ch/torasan37.htm|title=Tora-San's Bluebird Fantasy|access-date=2010-01-31|publisher= www.molodezhnaja.ch|language=German}}

Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy was released theatrically on December 20, 1986.{{cite web|url=http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/14504|title=男はつらいよ 幸福の青い鳥|access-date=2010-01-31|publisher=Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311090426/http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/14504|archive-date=2012-03-11}} In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1988 and 1996, and in DVD format in 2005 and 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=149993|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 幸福の青い鳥 (1986)|access-date=2010-01-31|publisher=allcinema.net|language=Japanese}}

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite web |first=Stuart |last=Galbraith IV |authorlink= Stuart Galbraith IV|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/26618/tora-san-37-tora-sans-bluebird-fantasy/|title=Tora-san 37: Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy (Region 3) |date=2007-02-16|access-date=2010-01-31|publisher=DVD Talk}}
• {{cite journal |date= 1987-05-13 |title= Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy|journal= The Hollywood Reporter|volume= 297|issue= May 1987|pages= 3, 9}}
• {{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305827|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017232526/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305827|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-17|title=OTOKO WA TSURAI YO SHIAWASE NO AOI TORI (1986)|access-date=2010-01-31|publisher=British Film Institute}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.citwf.com/film257069.htm|title=OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -SHIAWASE NO AOITORI|access-date=2010-01-31|publisher=Complete Index to World Film}}
• {{IMDb title|0091700|Otoko wa tsurai yo: Shiawase no aoi tori (1986)}}
• {{cite journal |date= 1987-01-11 |title='Tora-san' bringing in new year with 37th film |journal= Pacific Stars and Stripes}}

• {{cite web |url=http://www.molodezhnaja.ch/torasan37.htm|title=Tora-San's Bluebird Fantasy|access-date=2010-01-31|publisher=www.molodezhnaja.ch|language=German}}

• {{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=149993|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 幸福の青い鳥 (1986)|access-date=2010-01-31|publisher=allcinema.net|language=Japanese}}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/14504|title=男はつらいよ 幸福の青い鳥|access-date=2010-01-31|publisher=Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311090426/http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/14504|archive-date=2012-03-11}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1986/dj003350.htm|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 幸福の青い鳥|access-date=2010-01-31|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database}}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/17769|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 幸福の青い鳥|access-date=2010-01-31|language=Japanese|publisher=Kinema Junpo|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324083515/http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/17769|archive-date=2012-03-24}}

• [http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie37/ Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723030812/http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie37/ |date=2015-07-23 }} at www.tora-san.jp (official site)

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