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Talk of the Town Tora-san (男はつらいよ 噂の寅次郎, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Uwasa no Torajirō) aka Torasan and a Lovely Maid[1] is a 1978 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Reiko Ōhara as his love interest or "Madonna".[2] Talk of the Town Tora-san is the twenty-second entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Talk of the Town Tora-san
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Yoji Yamada
Written by	Yoji Yamada Yoshitaka Asama
Starring	Kiyoshi Atsumi Reiko Ōhara
Cinematography	Tetsuo Takaba
Edited by	Iwao Ishii
Music by	Naozumi Yamamoto
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	December 27, 1978 (1978-12-27)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Synopsis

Mistakenly believing that his brother-in-law's boss is planning to commit suicide, Tora-san attempts to prevent him.[3][4]

Cast

• Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō[5]
• Chieko Baisho as Sakura
• Reiko Ōhara as Sanae Arakawa
• Shimojo Masami 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

Critical appraisal

For his performance in Talk of the Town Tora-san and the previous entry in the series, Stage-Struck Tora-san (also 1978) Kiyoshi Atsumi was nominated for Best Actor at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony. Yoji Yamada was also nominated for Best Director at the ceremony for these two film.[6] The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Talk of the Town Tora-san three and a half out of five stars.[7]

Availability

Talk of the Town Tora-san was released theatrically on December 27, 1978.[8] In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1996, and in DVD format in 1998, 2002 and 2008.[9]

References

Notes

Bibliography

English

• "OTOKO WA TSURAI YO UWASA NO TORAJIRO (1978)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2010-01-20.
• "OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -UWASA NO TORAJIRO". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-01-20.

German

• "Tora-San's Talk of the Town" (in German). www.molodezhnaja.ch. Retrieved 2010-01-20.

Japanese

• 男はつらいよ 噂の寅次郎 (1978) (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2010-01-20.
• "男はつらいよ 噂の寅次郎". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2010-01-20.
• 男はつらいよ 噂の寅次郎 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-01-20.
• 男はつらいよ 噂の寅次郎 (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2010-01-20.

External links

• Talk of the Town Tora-san at IMDb
• Talk of the Town Tora-san at www.tora-san.jp (official site)

На других языках

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- [en] Talk of the Town Tora-san

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[ru] Мужчине живётся трудно. Фильм 22: Слухи о Торадзиро

«Мужчине живётся трудно. Фильм 22: Слухи о Торадзиро» (яп. 男はつらいよ　噂の寅次郎, Отоко-ва цурай ё: уваса-но торадзиро; англ. Talk of the Town Tora-san (Tora-san 22) — японская комедия режиссёра Ёдзи Ямады, вышедшая на экраны в 1978 году. 22-й фильм популярного в Японии киносериала о комичных злоключениях незадачливого чудака Торадзиро Курума, или по-простому Тора-сана. По результатам проката фильм посмотрели 1 млн. 915 тыс. японских зрителей[2]. В данной серии в третий, и в последний раз в этом популярном сериале выступил в качестве приглашённой звезды актёр Такаси Симура, известный зрителям прежде всего по фильмам Акиры Куросавы «Жить» (1952) и «Семь самураев» (1954). Впервые объект любовного интереса Тора-сана воплотила на экране актриса Рэйко Оохара, которая шесть лет спустя появится ещё в одном фильме этого сериала «Мужчине живётся трудно. Фильм 34: Истинный путь Торадзиро».

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