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Tora-san's Promise (Hong Kong Version) DVD Region 3

Yamada Yoji (Director) | Atsumi Kiyoshi (Actor) | Baisho Chieko (Actor) | Oashi Mkiko (Actor)
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Product Title: Tora-san's Promise (Hong Kong Version) 男人之苦: 紙風船 (香港版) 男人之苦: 纸风船 (香港版) Tora-san's Promise (Hong Kong Version) Tora-san's Promise (Hong Kong Version)
Artist Name(s): Atsumi Kiyoshi (Actor) | Baisho Chieko (Actor) | Oashi Mkiko (Actor) | Kishimoto Kayoko (Actor) 渥美清 (Actor) | 倍賞千惠子 (Actor) | 音無美紀子 (Actor) | 岸本加世子 (Actor) 渥美清 (Actor) | 倍赏千惠子 (Actor) | Oashi Mkiko (Actor) | 岸本加世子 (Actor) 渥美清 (Actor) | 倍賞千恵子 (Actor) | Oashi Mkiko (Actor) | 岸本加世子 (Actor) Atsumi Kiyoshi (Actor) | Baisho Chieko (Actor) | Oashi Mkiko (Actor) | Kishimoto Kayoko (Actor)
Director: Yamada Yoji 山田洋次 山田洋次 山田洋次 Yamada Yoji
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Release Date: 2006-04-28
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese
Country of Origin: Japan
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Sound Information: Dolby Digital 2.0
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?
Duration: 102 (mins)
Publisher: Panorama (HK)
Package Weight: 120 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1004253097

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* Screen Format: Letter Box
* Sound Mix : Dolby Digital 2.0
* Extras:
- 導演生平及作品年表
　Director's Biography and Filmography

導演：山田洋次
Director: Yamada Yoji

寅次郎要結婚？
一個死纏爛打的壞女孩
一個堅守承諾的中年婦
兩個只能揀一個﹗

《男人之苦》第28集，女神打孖上。音無美紀子飾演美艷未亡人，勾起寅次郎的結婚之念；另一邊廂，有初出道的跳跳紮少女岸本加世子。岸本今日已成為北野武的愛將，憑《花火》、《菊次郎之夏》等片屢獲最佳女主角、女配角獎項。

今集講到寅次郎(渥美清飾)在九州遇上壞女孩愛子(岸本加世子飾)。離家出走的愛子了無目的，她看見寅瀟灑自在，縱橫四海，遂死纏對方一同上路。途中，寅巧遇好友的妻子光枝(音無美紀子飾)，因而得知老友病危。寅馬上去探望常，誰知他只剩一個月命。妒忌心重的常不忍死後，愛妻與別的男人鬼混，於是哀求寅要在他身後要光枝為妻。寅勉強答應。常死後，寅不忘承諾，向家人宣佈；在三、五、七年內成家立室，並馬上展開搵工行動，打算重新做人，落地歸根。熬過了喪夫之痛的光枝，一日突然在「黃記」出現，原來她也知道丈夫生前為她作出的「再婚計劃」，並打算鼓起勇氣，向真剖白……

The 28th installment in the Tora-san series. In Kyushu, Tora-san meets a runway girl (Kishimoto Kayoko) who wants to become a partner in Tora-san's peddling business because she admires the free-spirited lifestyle of Tora-san. Later, Tora-san meets the wife of an old friend, who was also his former colleague. Tora-san is informed that his former colleague is now terminally ill. This man, who used to be a vendor selling fried octopus, asks Tora-san to marry his wife (Otonashi Mikiko) once he dies, because he is afraid that his wife might fool around with other men. Tora-san has no choice but to agree to his friend's deathwish. Now, he is determined to marry his friend's wife. So, Tora-san tries to find a job and stay in his family in order to marry her. Meanwhile. in Tokyo, the runaway goes to work at the family candy shop until her brother (Takeo Chii)shows up to claim her.
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Kevin Kennedy
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May 21, 2008
A great Tora-San film Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
"Tora-San's Promise", the 28th film in this great series, is one of my favorites. For the first time, Tora falls in love with a woman who really would make a suitable bride for him, a woman for whom Tora would be a considerable step up from her previous husband.

Tora returns to Tokyo from the road to find an invitation to attend a reunion of his elementary school classmates. All of his classmates arrive at the reunion looking well-scrubbed, well-dressed, and successful. Tora shows up in his usual peddler's garb and promptly offends everyone with his boorish behavior. By the end of the night, Tora is falling-down drunk and abandoned by his classmates.

Tora returns to the road, where he is asked to share his hotel room with an 18 year old girl named Aiko (Kishimoto Kayoko). Aiko has been expelled from school and has run away from home after her alcoholic and abusive father has died and her mother has become remarried to a man Aiko cannot abide. (In these Tora-San films, it is amazing how many characters come from similarly broken and dysfunctional homes. I assume that this reflects Tora's downscale milieu and not Japan as a whole.) Aiko adopts Tora as a kind of foster-father, traveling with him and helping him with his peddling, but Tora chafes at her outlandishly boisterous behavior.

At a festival at which he is peddling his wares, Tora encounters Mitsue (Otonashi Mikiko), the pretty wife of one of his buddies, Tsune. Tora learns that Tsune has been hospitalized with an illness and Mitsue is operating Tsune's fried octopus stand in his absence. Tora subsequently travels to Tsune's home to visit him. Tsune asks Tora to promise that, if he dies, Tora will marry Mitsue; Tora promises to do so. When leaving Tsune's home, Mitsue informs Tora that Tsune has no more than a few days left to live.

Tora then ditches Aiko and returns home to Tokyo, where he blissfully dreams of a more serious and stable life of marriage to Mitsue. There is a funny episode in which Aiko comes to Toraya, where she becomes a great distraction to the printing shop next door before being fetched back to her hometown by her extremely loud, but good-natured brother. The focus of the rest of the film is on Tora and Mitsue. Tsune soon dies and Mitsue moves back to Tokyo, her hometown. Tora and Mitsue then begin an unacknowledged courtship. As things begin to turn serious, Tora's shy and nervous behavior forces Mitsue to broach the subject of Tora's promise. The indirect and obscure way in which they talk about this most important of subjects is a gem of fine writing and acting.

Will Tora acknowledge and embrace the promise he made to Tsune? Will he marry this most suitable of women? Watch this excellent film to find out. I recommend "Tora-San's Promise" very, very highly.
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