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Kanji | 男はつらいよ お帰り 寅さん |
Revised Hepburn | Otoko wa Tsurai yo Okaeri Torasan |
Directed by | Yoji Yamada |
Written by | Yoji Yamada Yuzo Asahara |
Produced by | Hiroshi Fukazawa |
Starring | |
Edited by | Iwao Ishii Kazuhide Ishijima |
Music by | Naozumi Yamamoto Junnosuke Yamamoto |
Distributed by | Shochiku |
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Running time | 116 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here (男はつらいよ お帰り 寅さん, Otoko wa Tsurai yo Okaeri Torasan)[1] is a 2019 Japanese film directed by Yoji Yamada. It is the fiftieth entry in the popular and long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.[2] Shooting began on October 20, 2018 and the film was released on December 27, 2019. [3]
It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san). Atsumi died in 1996 and he appears throughout the film as flashbacks, using footage from his dozens of performances as Tora-san in the previous films. It also stars Chieko Baisho, Gin Maeda, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Kumiko Goto, Mari Natsuki, and Ruriko Asaoka, all recreating their roles from the long running film series.