Tora-san Goes North

Tora-san Goes North
Theatrical poster
Directed byYoji Yamada
Written byYoji Yamada
Yoshitaka Asama
Produced byKiyoshi Shimizu
Hiroshi Fukazawa
StarringKiyoshi Atsumi
Toshirō Mifune
Keiko Takeshita
CinematographyTetsuo Takaba
Edited byIwao Ishii
Music byNaozumi Yamamoto
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • August 15, 1987 (1987-08-15)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Tora-san Goes North (男はつらいよ 知床慕情, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Shiretoko Bojō) aka Torasan, Remind Shiretoke[1] is a 1987 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), Keiko Takeshita as the film's "Madonna", and Toshiro Mifune as Takeshita's father.[2] Tora-san Goes North is the thirty-eighth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

  1. ^ "OTOKO WA TSURAIYO -SHIRETOKO BOJO". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
  2. ^ "男はつらいよ 知床慕情" (in Japanese). www.tora-san.jp. Retrieved 2015-10-25. (official site)