Tora-san's Love in Osaka

When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his family that he plans to marry her. His plans are foiled when the geisha informs Tora-san that she is engaged.{{cite web|url=http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/17080|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 浪花の恋の寅次郎|access-date=2010-01-21|language=Japanese|publisher=Kinema Junpo|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321160925/http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/17080|archive-date=2012-03-21}}{{cite web |first=Stuart |last=Galbraith IV |authorlink= Stuart Galbraith IV|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/23171/tora-san-27-tora-sans-many-splintered-love/|title=Tora-san 27: Tora-san's Many-splintered Love (Region 3) |date=2006-08-11|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=DVD Talk}}{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305826|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017232109/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305826|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-17|title=OTOKO WA TSURAI YO NANIWA NO KOI NO TORAJIRO (1981)|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=British Film Institute}}

• Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō{{cite web |url= http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1981/de002660.htm|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 浪花の恋の寅次郎|access-date=2010-01-21|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database}}
• Chieko Baisho as Sakura
• Keiko Matsuzaka as Fumi Hamada
• 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
• Kannosuke Ashiya as Kikai

Tora-san's Love in Osaka was the fifth top box-office money-maker in Japan for 1981. For her role in the film Keiko Matsuzaka was named Best Actress at the Japan Academy Prize and Blue Ribbon Awards. Kiyoshi Atsumi was nominated for Best Actor by the Japanese Academy.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082865/awards|title=Awards for Otoko wa tsurai yo: Naniwa no koi no Torajirô (1981)|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=Internet Movie Database}}

Stuart Galbraith IV writes that Tora-san's Love in Osaka is an "above-average entry in this consistently excellent series". He points out that some of the film's humor may be lost on western viewers since it stems from the contrast between Tokyo and Osaka culture.

Director Yamada, according to Galbraith, "obviously favors rural, remote Japan to sprawling urban landscapes like Osaka," but nevertheless, "the film plays as a heartfelt valentine to the city and its people." The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san's Love in Osaka three and a half out of five stars.{{cite web |url=http://www.molodezhnaja.ch/torasan27.htm|title=Tora-San's Many-Splintered Love|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher= www.molodezhnaja.ch|language=German}}

Tora-san's Love in Osaka was released theatrically on August 8, 1981.{{cite web|url=http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/13523|title=男はつらいよ 浪花の恋の寅次郎|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226140317/http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/13523|archive-date=2014-02-26}} In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1986 and 1996, and in DVD format in 1998, 2002 and 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=147737|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 浪花の恋の寅次郎 (1981)|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=allcinema.net|language=Japanese}}

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305826|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017232109/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/305826|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-17|title=OTOKO WA TSURAI YO NANIWA NO KOI NO TORAJIRO (1981)|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=British Film Institute}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.citwf.com/film257068.htm|title=OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -NANIWA NO KOI NO TORAJIRO|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=Complete Index to World Film}}
• {{IMDb title|0082865|Otoko wa tsurai yo: Naniwa no koi no Torajirô (1981)}}
• {{cite web |first=Stuart |last=Galbraith IV |authorlink= Stuart Galbraith IV|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/23171/tora-san-27-tora-sans-many-splintered-love/|title=Tora-san 27: Tora-san's Many-splintered Love (Region 3) |date=2006-08-11|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=DVD Talk}}

• {{cite web |url=http://www.molodezhnaja.ch/torasan27.htm|title=Tora-San's Many-Splintered Love|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=www.molodezhnaja.ch|language=German}}

• {{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=147737|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 浪花の恋の寅次郎 (1981)|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=allcinema.net|language=Japanese}}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/13523|title=男はつらいよ 浪花の恋の寅次郎|access-date=2010-01-21|publisher=Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226140317/http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/13523|archive-date=2014-02-26}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1981/de002660.htm|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 浪花の恋の寅次郎|access-date=2010-01-21|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database}}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/17080|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 浪花の恋の寅次郎|access-date=2010-01-21|language=Japanese|publisher=Kinema Junpo|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321160925/http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/17080|archive-date=2012-03-21}}

• [http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie27/ Tora-san's Love in Osaka] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729031834/http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie27/ |date=2014-07-29 }} at www.tora-san.jp (official site)

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