Film
Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
Episode 1 - Otoko wa tsuraiyo
Friday, October 17, 7:30 PM
Join Yoji Yamada for a special Q&A live from Japan after the screening, via digital video!
© Shochiku Co., Ltd.
1969, 91 min., 35mm, color. Directed by Yoji Yamada, with Kiyoshi Atsumi, Sashiko Mitsumoto, Chieko Baisho.
Twenty years after leaving the small town of Shibamata, Tora-san returns home and is reunited with his younger sister Sakura, who has been raised there by their aunt and uncle. Sakura is now a beautiful young woman with many suitors. When Hiroshi, a neighborhood factory worker, vows to win Sakura over, Tora-san stirs the pot with clumsy schemes that backfire into disaster.
This film is part of the Monthly Classics series, Best of Tora-san.
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Japan Society 2007-08 Film Programs are generously supported by The Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Endowment Fund.
Additional support is provided by Joshua S. Levine and Nozomi Terao, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.
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