Otoko wa tsurai yo (男はつらいよ, "It's tough being a man") is a Japanese film series starring Kiyoshi Atsumi as "Tora-san" (寅さん), a kind-hearted vagabond who is always unlucky in love. Spanning 48 installments (1969–95), it was considered by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the longest movie series in the world, although it was recently replaced by the Huang Fei-Hong series. All of the films (except episodes 3 and 4) were directed by Yoji Yama...
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Otoko wa tsurai yo (男はつらいよ, "It's tough being a man") is a Japanese film series starring Kiyoshi Atsumi as "Tora-san" (寅さん), a kind-hearted vagabond who is always unlucky in love. Spanning 48 installments (1969–95), it was considered by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the longest movie series in the world, although it was recently replaced by the Huang Fei-Hong series. All of the films (except episodes 3 and 4) were directed by Yoji Yamada, who also wrote all the screenplays.
All of the Tora-san movies had the same basic plot. Tora-san, a traveling salesman, arrives in some remote town planning to peddle his wares to the locals. He meets the "Madonna" - a local single woman and tells her that if she is ever in Tokyo to look him up at his family's Dango shop. He then heads back home to Shibamata, Katsushika, Tokyo and drops in unexpectedly on his family who run a traditional sweet shop. Sure enough, the damsel in distress ends up visiting Tora-san in Tokyo, and he falls madly...
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