Tora-san's Easy Advice

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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.

• 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

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

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]

• Otoko wa tsurai yo: Haikei, Kuruma Torajiro sama (1994) at IMDb

• "Tora-San's Easy Advice" (in German). www.molodezhnaja.ch. Retrieved 2010-02-01.

• 男はつらいよ 拝啓 車寅次郎様 (1994) (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
• "男はつらいよ 拝啓 車寅次郎様". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
• 男はつらいよ 拝啓 車寅次郎様 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
• 男はつらいよ 拝啓 車寅次郎様 (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2010-02-01.

• Tora-san's Easy Advice Archived 2015-07-23 at the Wayback Machine at www.tora-san.jp (official site)