Tora-san Makes Excuses
{{Infobox film
| name = Tora-san Makes Excuses
| image = Tora-San Makes Excuses.jpg
| caption = Theatrical poster
| director = Yoji Yamada
| producer = Kiyoshi Shimizu
Hiro Fukazawa
| writer = Yoji Yamada
Yoshitaka Asama
| starring = Kiyoshi Atsumi
Kumiko Goto
| music = Naozumi Yamamoto
| cinematography = Tetsuo Takaba
Mitsumi Hanada
| editing = Iwao Ishii
| distributor = Shochiku
| released = {{Film date|1992|12|26}}
| runtime = 101 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
| budget =
| gross = $26 million{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|title=Warner Bros. tops hot box office 100|last=Klady|first=Leonard|date=January 3, 1994|page=42}}
}}
{{nihongo|Tora-san Makes Excuses|男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春|Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirō no Seishun}} is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Goto as his nephew Mitsuo's Hidetaka Yoshioka love interest or "Madonna", Izumi.{{cite web|url=http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie45/madonna.html|title=男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春 (Madonna)|access-date=2010-02-01|website=www.tora-san.jp|language=Japanese|archive-date=2015-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717072430/http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie45/madonna.html|url-status=dead}} (official site) It also co-stars Masatoshi Nagase, who plays Mitsuo's rival for Izumi's affection and Mari Natsuki as Izumi's mother. Tora-San Makes Excuses is the forty-fifth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.
Cast
- Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō{{cite web |url= http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1992/dp002640.htm|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春|access-date=2010-02-01|language=Japanese|publisher= Japanese Movie Database}}
- Chieko Baisho as Sakura
- Jun Fubuki as Choko
- Masatoshi Nagase as Ryusuke
- Masami Shimojō as Kuruma Tatsuzō (Torajirō's uncle )
- Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajirō's aunt)
- Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetarō Katsura)
- Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo Suwa
- Kumiko Goto as Izumi Oikawa
- Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
- Mari Natsuki as Ayako Oikawa
- Gajirō Satō as Genkō
- Keiroku Seki as Ponshu
- Chishū Ryū as Gozen-sama
Critical appraisal
The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san Makes Excuses three and a half out of five stars.{{cite web |url=http://www.molodezhnaja.ch/torasan45.htm|title=Tora-San Makes Excuses|access-date=2010-02-01|website = www.molodezhnaja.ch|language=German}}
Availability
Tora-san Makes Excuses was released theatrically on December 26, 1992.{{cite web|url= http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/1810|title= 男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春|access-date= 2010-02-01|publisher= Agency for Cultural Affairs|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120326031813/http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/1810|archive-date= 2012-03-26}} In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1993 and 1996, and in DVD format in 2002 and 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=151854|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春 (1992)|access-date=2010-02-01|website = www.allcinema.net|language=Japanese}}
References
{{Reflist}}
Bibliography
=English=
- {{cite web |url=http://www.citwf.com/film257089.htm|title=OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -TORAJIRO NO SEISHUN|access-date=2010-02-01|publisher=Complete Index to World Film}}
- {{IMDb title|0105071|Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro no seishun (1992)}}
=Japanese=
- {{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=151854|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春 (1992)|access-date=2010-02-01|website = www.allcinema.net|language=Japanese}}
- {{cite web|url= http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/1810|title= 男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春|access-date= 2010-02-01|publisher= Agency for Cultural Affairs|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120326031813/http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/1810|archive-date= 2012-03-26}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1992/dp002640.htm|script-title=ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春|access-date=2010-02-01|language=Japanese|publisher= Japanese Movie Database}}
- {{cite web |url= http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/27555 |script-title= ja:男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春 |access-date= 2010-02-01 |language= Japanese |publisher= Kinema Junpo |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120324083716/http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/27555 |archive-date= 2012-03-24 }}
External links
- [http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie45/ Tora-san Makes Excuses] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723030856/http://www.tora-san.jp/toranomaki/movie45/ |date=2015-07-23 }} at www.tora-san.jp (official site)
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Category:Films directed by Yoji Yamada
Category:1990s Japanese-language films
Category:Otoko wa Tsurai yo films
Category:Films with screenplays by Yôji Yamada
Category:Japanese sequel films
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