Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial

Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Theatrical poster
Directed byYoji Yamada
Written byYoji Yamada
Yoshitaka Asama
StarringKiyoshi Atsumi
Yoshiko Mita
CinematographyTetsuo Takaba
Edited byIwao Ishii
Music byNaozumi Yamamoto
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • December 24, 1988 (1988-12-24)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial (男はつらいよ 寅次郎サラダ記念日, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirō Sarada Kinenbi) is a 1988 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Yoshiko Mita as his love interest or "Madonna".[1] Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial is the fortieth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series. The title comes from Machi Tawara poetry collection Salad Anniversary, on which this movie was based.

  1. ^ "S男はつらいよ 寅次郎サラダ記念日 (Madonna)" (in Japanese). www.tora-san.jp. Archived from the original on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2010-02-01. (official site)