| Tora-san Confesses | |
| Director: | Yoji Yamada |
| Producer: | Hiroshi Fukazawa |
| Starring: | Kiyoshi Atsumi Kumiko Goto |
| Music: | Naozumi Yamamoto |
| Cinematography: | Tetsuo Takaba Mitsumi Hanada |
| Editing: | Iwao Ishii |
| Distributor: | Shochiku |
| Runtime: | 104 minutes |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
is a 1991 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Hideko Yoshida as his love interest or "Madonna".[1] Tora-san Confesses is the forty-fourth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.
Series Director Yoji Yamada and Yoshitaka Asama were nominated for Best Screenplay at the Japan Academy Prize for their work on Tora-san Confesses. Other nominations for the film at the ceremony were Mitsuo Degawa for Best Art Direction and Isao Suzuki and Takashi Matsumoto for Best Sound.[3] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that this entry "is a charmer, full of the sentiment, humor and compassion that made the Tora-san movies always the most popular attraction" at Japanese language cinemas in Los Angeles.[4] The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san Confesses three out of five stars.[5]
Tora-san Confesses was released theatrically on December 23, 1991.[6] In Japan, the film was released on videotape in 1992 and 1996, and in DVD format in 2000 and 2005.[7]