Directed by:
Yōji YamadaCinematography:
Masashi ChikamoriCast:
渥美清 (a.f.), 倍賞千恵子, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Kumiko Goto, 前田吟, Chizuru Ikewaki, Junko Nakajima, Ruriko Asaoka, Chiyomi Sone, 佐藤蛾次郎 , 濱田マリ, 橋爪功, Tamahei Hayashiya (more)Plots(1)
In 1969, Yamada Yōji released the first film featuring his irascible anti-hero Kuruma Torajirō, or Tora-san for short: a salt-of-the-earth type from Shibamata in Tōkyō's Katsushika ward, which through the series became the epitome of lower-middle-class Japan – a reliable old world of decency and straightforwardness where the liberal and the conservative found an almost impossible balance. Until the death of comedian Atsumi Kiyoshi in 1996, 47 more films were made, all but two under the direction of Yamada. However, as Atsumi was Tora-san, the series had to end, with a beautiful meta-coda called The Rainbow Seekers (1996), which considers all the Tora-sans of the world as cinema's true soul. Tora-san, Wish You Were Here is another coda: a meditation on time's grace and horror, as well as an elegy for a lost world. But maybe through remembering it, we can keep some of its values alive? Let's find our Tora-san! (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
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渥美清 (a.f.)
Japan
Best movies:
The Castle of Sand (1974)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
倍賞千恵子
Japan
Best movies:
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Our Mother (2008)
The Hidden Blade (2004)
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Japan
Best movies:
The Hidden Blade (2004)
After the Rain (1999)
Half a Confession (2004)
Kumiko Goto
Japan
前田吟
Japan
Best movies:
The Floating Castle (2012)
R100 (2013)
Chizuru Ikewaki
Japan
Best movies:
Shoplifters (2018)
The Great Passage (2013)
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2003)
Junko Nakajima
Japan
Best movies:
Spirited Away (2001)
Samurai Fiction (1998)
Isle of Dogs (2018)
Ruriko Asaoka
Japan
Best movies:
A Story Written with Water (1965)
Steel Edge of Revenge (1969)
Incident at Blood Pass (1970)
Chiyomi Sone
Japan
Best movies:
Solanin (2010)
Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai (2015)
Ninja Wars (1982)
佐藤蛾次郎
Japan
Best movies:
G.I. Samurai (1979)
Ninja Wars (1982)
濱田マリ
Japan
Best movies:
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Overprotected Kahoko (2017) (series)
Blood and Bones (2004)
橋爪功
Japan
Best movies:
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
Under the Open Sky (2020)
Tokyo Family (2013)
Tamahei Hayashiya
Japan
Masayasu Kitayama
Japan
Best movies:
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Our Mother (2008)
The Hidden Blade (2004)
Nenji Kobayashi
Japan
Best movies:
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
The Hidden Blade (2004)
Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Taiki Matsuno
Japan
Hiyori Sakurada
Japan
Best movies:
The Crimes That Bind (2018)
Tokyo Ghoul S (2019)
Tokyo Ghoul (2017)
Takashi Sasano
Japan
Best movies:
Departures (2008)
Our Mother (2008)
The Hidden Blade (2004)
カンニング竹山
Japan
Best movies:
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Beck (2010)
田中壮太郎
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Family (2013)
The Land of Hope (2012)