Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro ajisai no koi
Japan
1982
110 Min
Color
2.35:1
Japanese
Synopsis
In Kyoto, Tora-san meets a famous old pottery maker, and falls for the beautiful maid (Ayumi Ishida) working at his shop. A widow, she returns home to Tango to be with her son, and Tora-san follows her there. In this 29th Tora-san movie, famed Kabuki actor (and national treasure) Nizaemonn Kataoka plays the old potter. —Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Director
Yôji Yamada
Yōji Yamada (山田 洋次, Yamada Yōji?, born September 13, 1931 in Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films.
He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the age of 2 he was brought up in Manchuria. Following the end of World War II, he came back to Japan and subsequently he lived in Yamagata Prefecture.
After receiving his degree from Tokyo University in 1954, he entered Shochiku and worked under Yoshitaro Nomura as a scriptwriter or as an assistant director.
He has won many awards throughout his lengthy career and is well-respected in Japan and by critics throughout the world. He wrote his first screenplay in 1958, and directed his first movie in 1961. Yamada continues to make movies to this day.
He is a guest professor of Ritsumeikan University. —wikipedia
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