Tora-san's Easy Advice

Tora-san's Easy Advice (男はつらいよ　拝啓　車寅次郎様, Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Haikei, Kuruma Torajirō-sama) is a 1994 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Rino Katase as his love interest or "Madonna".^[1] Tora-san's Easy Advice is the forty-seventh entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Tora-san's Easy Advice
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Yoji Yamada
Written by	Yoji Yamada Yoshitaka Asama
Produced by	Yoshiki Nomura
Starring	Kiyoshi Atsumi Rino Katase
Cinematography	Tetsuo Takaba
Edited by	Iwao Ishii
Music by	Naozumi Yamamoto Jun'nosuke Yamamoto
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	December 23, 1994 (1994-12-23)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Cast

• Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō^[2]
• Chieko Baisho as Sakura
• Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo Suwa
• Riho Makise as Nao Kawai
• Rino Katase as Noriko
• Shimojo Masami as Kuruma Tatsuzō
• Chieko Misaki as Tsune Kuruma (Torajirō's aunt)
• Masato Yamada as Shinobu Kawai
• Hisao Dazai as Boss (Umetarō Katsura)
• Gajirō Satō as Genkō

Critical appraisal

The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san's Easy Advice three out of five stars.^[3]

Availability

Tora-san's Easy Advice was released theatrically on December 23, 1994.^[4] In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1996, and in DVD format in 2002 and 2008.^[5]