TORA-SAN'S CHERISHED MOTHER at Japan Society NY this Friday

Japan Society NY

Presents

© Shochiku Co., Ltd.

Tora-san's Cherished Mother / Zoku otoko wa tsurai yo

Directed by Yôji Yamada
With Kiyoshi Atsumi, Orie Sato
Japan, 1969, 93 minutes

DCP, color, in Japanese with English subtitles

When: Friday, September 6th at 7:00 PM

Where: Japan Society NY

333 East 47th Street, NYC

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In celebration of Tora-san's 50th anniversary, Japan Society has invited Japanese architectural firm Atelier Bow-Wow, curator and exhibition designer of Made in Tokyo: Architecture and Living, 1964/2020 (opening at Japan Society on Oct. 11), to select newly restored and subtitled favorites from the long-running film series featuring the beloved Tokyo icon.

In this second installment of the popular series, made in the same year as the first film, Tora-san returns home to Shibamata, Tokyo, where he meets his sister's newborn child, bumps into his old teacher and falls in love with the teacher's beautiful daughter Natsuko (Orie Sato). After learning that his long-estranged mother (a geisha who had a brief affair with his father) may still be alive, Tora-san sets out for Kyoto in search of lost time.