Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
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| Directed by | Yoji Yamada |
| Produced by | Kiyoshi Shimizu Shigehiro Nakagawa |
| Written by | Yoji Yamada Yoshitaka Asama |
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Kiyoshi Atsumi Etsuko Shihomi |
| Music by | Naozumi Yamamoto |
| Cinematography | Tetsuo Takaba |
| Edited by | Iwao Ishii |
| Distributed by | Shochiku |
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102 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy (男はつらいよ 幸福の青い鳥 Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Shiawase no Aoi Tori?) aka Tora-san, Bluebird of Happiness is a 1986 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Etsuko Shihomi as his love interest or "Madonna".Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy is the thirty-seventh entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist.
Stuart Galbraith IV judges this to be one of the weaker entries in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series, but still recommended. Perhaps the most notable aspect of the film is that the co-star, Etsuko Shihomi, was the star of the Sister Street Fighter series. It was on the set of Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy that she met Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi, whom she married the following year. The German-language site molodezhnaja gives Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy three and a half out of five stars.
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy was released theatrically on December 20, 1986. In Japan, the film has been released on videotape in 1988 and 1996, and in DVD format in 2005 and 2008.
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