Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Yoji Yamada / JP, 2019 / 116 min.
Charming homage to Tora-san, Japan’s most popular film character and also the title of Shochiku’s long-running film series. Closing film of the film programme focussing on this renowned production house.
In 1969, Yamada Yōji released the first of his films featuring his hot-headed antihero Kuruma Torajirō, or Tora-san for short: a kind-hearted type from Tokyo’s Katsushika district, which as the series progresses becomes the showcase for middle-class Japan – an old-fashioned world of decency and straightforwardness in which liberals and conservatives struck an almost impossible balance.
Details
Director
Yoji Yamada
Production year
2019
Country
JP
Original title
Otoko wa tsurai yo 50: Okaeri Tora-san
Length
116 min.
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Shochiku 100
Yasujiro Ozu, Masaki Kobayashi, Takeshi Kitano: the masters of Japanese cinema. But did you know that their work was made possible by Shochiku? In 2022 Eye is marking over one hundred years of one of Japan’s oldest, and largest, film companies.
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