Originally produced as a motion picture in 1987. 880-07 Atsumi Kiyoshi, Baishō Chieko, Shimojō Masami, Misaki Chieko, Maeda Gin, Yoshioka Hidetaka, Dazai Hisao, Satō Gajirō, Ryū Chishū, Mifune Toshirō, Takeshita Keiko. Includes special features.
Summary:
Tora-san returns home for a visit, and feeling a sense of duty as heir to the store, offers to help his beloved sister, Sakura (Chieko Baisho) and aunt (Chieko Misaki) reopen the shop in Uncle's absence. Of course, Tora-san is too lazy to really help; ultimately he only causes more grief for everyone, and so Tora-san flees to rural Hokkaido, in northernmost Japan. There he meets an ill-tempered, rather disheveled old country veterinarian, Junkichi Ueno (Toshiro Mifune), bitter since the death of his wife 10 years ago and angry that his daughter, Rinko (Keiko Takeshita), married a Tokyoite and moved to the Big City without her father's blessing. Lonely, Ueno invites Tora-san to stay with him a while, and soon Tora-san is the life of the party among local residents, especially at the nearby snack bar (a kind of hostess club/bar with karaoke and flirtatious women) run by Etsuko (Keiko Awaji), whom Ueno secretly loves. (Awaji and Mifune first appeared together in Kurosawa's Stray Dog, released nearly 40 years earlier.) When Rinko suddenly returns home unannounced, having divorced her husband in Tokyo, Ueno is mercilessly unsupportive and unforgiving. Regarded as an eccentric grouch by the locals, Ueno seems determined to destroy whatever remains of his relationship with his daughter, while his reticence with Etsuko threatens that relationship before it can even blossom--dvdtalk.com.
Series:
880-05 Otoko wa tsurai yo ; dai 38-saku 880-06 Otoko wa tsurai yo puremiamu zenkan bokkusu ; dai 38-saku
OCLC:
(OCoLC)613503712
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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