Tora-san Takes a Vacation

Tora-san Takes a Vacation is a 1990 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma, and Kumiko Goto as his nephew's love interest for "Madonna". Tora-san Takes a Vacation is the forty-third entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

WWW tora-san.jp/movie/43

Cast

Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō
Chieko Baisho as Sakura
Kumiko Goto as Izumi Oikawa
Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo Suwa
Mari Natsuki as Ayako Oikawa
Shimojo Masami as Kuruma Tatsuzō
Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma
Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
Hisao Dazai as Boss
Gajirō Satō as Genkō
Chishū Ryū as Gozen-sama

Critical appraisal

Hidetaka Yoshioka was nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Kumiko Goto for Best Supporting Actress at the Japan Academy Prize for their roles in Tora-san Takes a Vacation, and the previous entry in the series, Tora-san, My Uncle. The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san Takes a Vacation two and a half out of five stars.

Availability

Tora-san Takes a Vacation was released theatrically on December 22, 1990. In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1996, and in DVD format in 2005 and 2008.

Tora-san Takes a Vacation

Cast

Critical appraisal

Availability

English

German

Japanese