| Tora-san, Wish You Were Here | |||||||||||
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| Director: | Yoji Yamada | ||||||||||
| Producer: | Hiroshi Fukazawa | ||||||||||
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| Music: | Naozumi Yamamoto Junnosuke Yamamoto | ||||||||||
| Editing: | Iwao Ishii Kazuhide Ishijima | ||||||||||
| Distributor: | Shochiku | ||||||||||
| Runtime: | 116 minutes | ||||||||||
| Country: | Japan | ||||||||||
| Language: | Japanese | ||||||||||
[1] is a 2019 Japanese film directed by Yoji Yamada. It is the fiftieth entry in the popular and long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.[2] Shooting began on October 20, 2018 and the film was released on December 27, 2019. [3]
It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san). Atsumi died in 1996 and he appears throughout the film as flashbacks, using footage from his dozens of performances as Tora-san in the previous films. It also stars Chieko Baisho, Gin Maeda, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Kumiko Goto, Mari Natsuki, and Ruriko Asaoka, all recreating their roles from the long running film series.