Tora san Goes North

Torasan Goes North , Otoko wa Tsurai yo Shiretoko Boj? aka Torasan, Remind Shiretoke is a 1987 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajir Kuruma Torasan, Keiko Takeshita as the films Madonna, and Toshiro Mifune as Takeshitas father. Torasan Goes North is the thirtyeighth entry in the popular, longrunning Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Toshir Mifune was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Japan Academy Prize for his role in Torasan Goes North. He won awards for Best Supporting Actor at the Blue Ribbon Awards and the Mainichi Film Award ceremonies. Keiko Awaji was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Japan Academy Prize. Stuart Galbraith IV writes that Torasan Goes North is funny, charming, and ultimately quite moving. The film unites Mifune and Keiko Awaji who had appeared together forty years earlier in Kurosawas Stray Dog 1949. Noting that Mifune rarely found a good part in the last two decades of his career, Galbraith judges Torasan Goes North to be an utterly charming film that gives the great actor one of his last good roles. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times states that this entry in the series is a little tougherminded and a little less sentimental than usual, which is all to the good and that Yamada had created a role ideal for Mifune. The Germanlanguage site molodezhnaja gives Torasan Goes North three and a half out of five stars.Torasan Goes North was released theatrically on August 15, 1987. In Japan, the film has been released on videotape in 1996, and in DVD format in 1997, 2002, and 2008. ........

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