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Tora-San's The Go Between (Hong Kong Version) DVD Region 3

Atsumi Kiyoshi (Actor) | Baisho Chieko (Actor) | Higuchi Kanako (Actor) | Mitsuru Hirata (Actor)
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Tora-San's The Go Between (Hong Kong Version)

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Product Title: Tora-San's The Go Between (Hong Kong Version) 男人之苦: 戀愛補習班 (香港版) 男人之苦: 恋爱补习班 (香港版) Tora-San's The Go Between (Hong Kong Version) Tora-San's The Go Between (Hong Kong Version)
Artist Name(s): Atsumi Kiyoshi (Actor) | Baisho Chieko (Actor) | Higuchi Kanako (Actor) | Mitsuru Hirata (Actor) 渥美清 (Actor) | 倍賞千惠子 (Actor) | 樋口可南子 (Actor) | 平田滿 (Actor) 渥美清 (Actor) | 倍赏千惠子 (Actor) | 樋口可南子 (Actor) | 平田满 (Actor) 渥美清 (Actor) | 倍賞千恵子 (Actor) | 樋口可南子 (Actor) | Mitsuru Hirata (Actor) Atsumi Kiyoshi (Actor) | Baisho Chieko (Actor) | Higuchi Kanako (Actor) | Mitsuru Hirata (Actor)
Director: Yamada Yoji 山田洋次 山田洋次 山田洋次 Yamada Yoji
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Release Date: 2006-09-09
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese
Country of Origin: Japan
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Aspect Ratio: Letterboxed
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: 108 (mins)
Publisher: Panorama (HK)
Package Weight: 100 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1004509336

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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

　　《男人之苦》第35集。故事由長崎的五島展開，寅次郎（渥美清飾）無意中救回一位摔倒的老婆婆，繼而輾轉認識了她在東京的孫女若菜（樋口可南子飾）。年輕貌美的若菜在東京獨自生活，住在她樓下的法律系學生民夫（平田滿飾）一直暗戀她，可惜民夫膽小懦弱，從不敢接近若菜。民夫的苦戀很快就被寅識破，但出乎寅所料，若菜原來亦早已芳心暗許給這個書蟲。為了若菜的幸福，寅決定出招指點民夫，誰知他愈幫愈忙，攪到這個書蟲上山自盡……

　　The 35rd instalment in the Tora-san series. On the Goto Islans, Tora-san rescues an old lady and befriends her. She then dies all of a sudden and at her Chritian funeral, he meets the old woman's granddaughter, who lives alone in Tokyo. Back in Shibamata, Tora-san looks her up, and finds that a young man, who is studying to be a lawyer, is secretly having a crush on her. However, this young man is too shy to express his love. In order to help this pair of lovebirds, Tora-san acts as a go-between by matching her up with the young man.
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Average Customer Rating for this Edition: Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10 (1)

Kevin Kennedy
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June 25, 2008
Love guru Tora Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10
"Tora-San's The Go-Between", the 35th film in the Tora-San series, tells a warm-hearted, funny, and engaging tale. Tora and a peddling friend are lounging in Kyushu when they see a bent-over old woman fall. They help her to her home, then, upon her invitation, join her for an evening of octopus, sake, and song. They end up spending the night in the old woman's home, but early in the morning they are awakened to find the old woman dying in peace and prayer. Tora and his friend stay for her Christian funeral service. There Tora meets Wakana (Higuchi Kanako), the old woman's pretty twenty-something granddaughter. We learn that Wakana was born to unmarried parents, that her father abandoned the family and her mother committed suicide, and that Wakana was raised by her grandmother.

Wakana sends a letter to Tora thanking him for his kindness to her grandmother. Tora, naturally, takes the opportunity to visit the young woman. He quickly becomes smitten with her, but finds that her law student neighbor (Hirata Mitsuru) also loves her, although he is too shy to express it. There follows a scene in which Tora dismissively mentions to Wakana that the law student loves her and Wakana acknowledges that she knows it. The beauty of the scene, so typical of the magic that director Yamada Yoji works, is its unspoken subtext in which Tora (a) expresses his own interest in Wakana, (b) becomes aware that Wakana is interested in the student, not him, (c) is crestfallen by this realization, but (d) immediately chooses to do the right thing by bringing the young pair together. The subtle ease with which Yamada and actor Atsumi Kiyoshi pull off this emotionally complex scene is testimony to their greatness.

Can Tora succeed in bringing the shy twosome together? Will his advice help or hinder the law student? There are lots of laughs along the way to the resolution of these questions. There also are laughs in the film's opening dream sequence, a spoof of "The Ballad of Narayama", a classic story told in many film versions.

The film nicely contrasts the warmth of the family life that fills the Toraya sweet shop with the loneliness of the lives of Wakana and the law student. Director Yamada uses this contrast to illustrate the comforts of lives rooted in family and community. "Tora-San's The Go-Between" is a wonderfully warm and entertaining film. I recommend it highly.
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