Tora-san to the Rescue

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Tora-san to the Rescue (男はつらいよ　寅次郎紅の花, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirō Kurenai no Hana) is a 1995 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Ruriko Asaoka as his love interest or "Madonna".^[1] Tora-san to the Rescue is the forty-eighth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

• Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō^[2]
• Chieko Baisho as Sakura Suwa
• Ruriko Asaoka as Lily
• Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo Suwa
• Kumiko Goto as Izumi Oikawa
• Masami Shimojō as Kuruma Tatsuzō
• Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajirō's aunt)
• Gin Maeda as Hiroshi Suwa
• Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetarō Katsura)
• Gajirō Satō as Genkō
• Hiroshi Inuzuka as Taxi driver
• Keiroku Seki as Ponshū
• Mari Natsuki as Ayako Oikawa
• Kunie Tanaka as Ship captain

The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san to the Rescue three and a half out of five stars.^[3]

Tora-san to the Rescue was released theatrically on December 23, 1995.^[4] In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1996 and 1997, and in DVD format in 2005 and 2008.^[5]

• Tora-san to the Rescue at IMDb

• "Tora-San to the Rescue" (in German). www.molodezhnaja.ch. Retrieved 2010-02-01.

• 男はつらいよ 寅次郎紅の花 (1995) (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
• "男はつらいよ 寅次郎紅の花". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
• 男はつらいよ 寅次郎紅の花 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
• 男はつらいよ 寅次郎紅の花 (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on 2015-07-07. Retrieved 2010-02-01.

• Tora-san to the Rescue Archived 2015-07-07 at the Wayback Machine at www.tora-san.jp (official site)