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Tora-san Makes Excuses (男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirō no Seishun) is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Goto as his nephew Mitsuo's Hidetaka Yoshioka love interest or "Madonna", Izumi.^[2] It also co-stars Masatoshi Nagase, who plays Mitsuo's rival for Izumi's affection and Mari Natsuki as Izumi's mother. Tora-San Makes Excuses is the forty-fifth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Cast

• Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō^[3]
• Chieko Baisho as Sakura
• Jun Fubuki as Choko
• Masatoshi Nagase as Ryusuke
• Masami Shimojō as Kuruma Tatsuzō (Torajirō's uncle )
• Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajirō's aunt)
• Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetarō Katsura)
• Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo Suwa
• Kumiko Goto as Izumi Oikawa
• Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
• Mari Natsuki as Ayako Oikawa
• Gajirō Satō as Genkō
• Keiroku Seki as Ponshu
• Chishū Ryū as Gozen-sama

Critical appraisal

The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san Makes Excuses three and a half out of five stars.^[4]

Availability

Tora-san Makes Excuses was released theatrically on December 26, 1992.^[5] In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1993 and 1996, and in DVD format in 2002 and 2008.^[6]

References

Bibliography

English

• "OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -TORAJIRO NO SEISHUN". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
• Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro no seishun (1992) at IMDb

Japanese

• 男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春 (1992). www.allcinema.net (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-02-01.
• "男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
• 男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
• 男はつらいよ 寅次郎の青春 (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2010-02-01.

External links

• Tora-san Makes Excuses Archived 2015-07-23 at the Wayback Machine at www.tora-san.jp (official site)