Tora-san's Shattered Romance

Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Theatrical poster
Directed byYoji Yamada
Written byYoji Yamada
Akira Miyazaki
StarringKiyoshi Atsumi
Ayako Wakao
Chieko Baisho
Chishū Ryū
Hisaya Morishige
CinematographyTetsuo Takaba
Edited byIwao Ishii
Music byNaozumi Yamamoto
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • January 15, 1971 (1971-01-15)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Tora-san's Shattered Romance (男はつらいよ 純情篇, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Junjō hen) aka Tora-san in Love[1] is a 1971 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Ayako Wakao as his love interest or "Madonna".[2] Tora-san's Shattered Romance is the sixth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Synopsis

In Nagasaki, Tora helps a penniless young woman with a young child, on her way back to her father’s house on Goto Island after leaving her husband. The father tells her to return to the husband; Tora, listening to this, realizes he also must not depend on an assured home to return to… but hearing the whistle of the last ferry, he impulsively leaves for Tokyo. Meanwhile at the Shibamata sweet shop, Yuko, a distant relative of Tora’s aunt has also left her husband and is being given refuge, and Tora’s sister Sakura’s husband Hiroshi has plans to borrow money from his father, leave “Tako” Shacho (boss)’s print shop and set up on his own. Shacho is devastated, sure that he’ll go bankrupt without his best worker. Tora returns, falls for Yuko and makes the worst mess of mediating between Hiroshi and Shacho. Hiroshi’s father, however, doesn’t have money to lend, so Hiroshi agrees to stay. Yuko’s husband comes for her and she agrees to reconcile. Tora heads out again for New Year work. The Goto woman, husband and child, also reconciled, visit the sweet shop to thank the absent Tora. She calls her father who is stoically home alone.[3][4]

Cast

Critical appraisal

For his work on Tora-san's Shattered Romance as well as the next two entries in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series, Tora-san, the Good Samaritan and Tora-san's Love Call (all 1971), Yoji Yamada tied for Best Director at the Mainichi Film Awards with Masahiro Shinoda.[6] The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san's Shattered Romance three and a half out of five stars.[7]

Availability

Tora-san's Shattered Romance was released theatrically on January 15, 1971.[8] In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1983 and 1995, and in DVD format in 2005 and 2008.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -JUNJO HEN". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
  2. ↑ "男はつらいよ 純情篇 (Madonna)" (in Japanese). www.tora-san.jp. Retrieved 2010-01-18. (official site)
  3. ↑ 男はつらいよ 純情篇 (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
  4. ↑ "OTOKO WA TSURAI YO JUNJO-HEN (1971)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
  5. ↑ 男はつらいよ 純情篇 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
  6. ↑ "Awards for Otoko wa tsurai yo: Funto hen (1971)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
  7. ↑ "Tora-San's Shattered Romance" (in German). www.molodezhnaja.ch. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
  8. ↑ "男はつらいよ 純情篇". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Archived from the original on 2011-10-08. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
  9. ↑ 男はつらいよ 純情篇(1971) (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2010-01-18.

Bibliography

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