25 December 1993 Comedy 104 mins
After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring Mitsuo back home, himself falls in love with an attractive but troubled woman visiting her father.
Watch the official Tora-san's Matchmaker 1993 trailer in HD below or find more Tora-san's Matchmaker videos on Vidimovie.
Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajiro Kuruma(Tora-san)
Chieko Baisho as Sakura
Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo
Keiko Matsuzaka as Yoko
Mikako Shiroyama as Aya
Gajirō Satō as Gen
Toshiyuki Nishida as Densuke Hamazaki
Yoji Yamada Director
Yozo Sakurai Executive Producer
Kiyoshi Shimazu Producer
Yoji Yamada Screenplay
Yoshitaka Asama Screenplay
Naozumi Yamamoto Original Music Composer
Mitsuo Degawa Production Design
Yutaka Yokoyama Production Design
Iwao Ishii Editor
Isao Suzuki Sound Recordist
Ryuji Matsumoto Sound Mixer
Tadashi Kaneda Still Photographer
Tsutomu Abe Assistant Director
Masashi Chikamori Assistant Camera
Kazuhide Ishijima Assistant Editor
Yoji Yamada Original Story
Tora-san's Matchmaker Trailer
Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirō no Endan Trailer
Otoko wa Tsurai yo 46 Trailer
Japan 25 December 1993
If you liked the Tora-san's Matchmaker trailer, you may like these ones:
27 December 1989
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.
27 August 1969
Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura.
26 December 1992
Tora befriends a pretty barbershop owner and runs into Izumi. When Tora twists his ankle, Mitsuo comes to care for him and see Izumi.
23 December 1991
When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her.
28 December 1974
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again.
28 December 1984
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears.
06 August 1977
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.
26 August 1970
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.
22 November 1997
Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san.
15 January 1971
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his sister Sakura.
24 December 1977
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1993:
24 June 1993
A gruesome look into the infamous and seemingly neverending 1991 Vizconde murder case in the Philippines where a woman, her teen daughter, and a 6-year-old were all viciously stabbed to death while the husband was away in America on business.
11 June 1993
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA.
15 December 1993
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
28 March 1993
A married doctor marries two other women and juggles a life with three wives.
12 January 1993
Condominium residents are terrified when they learn that two of their neighbors have been brutally raped and that the culprit may be living in their midst.
01 January 1993
Biographic film about Canadian author Ernest Buckler.
31 December 1993
Interviews with celebrities such as Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, Dennis Hopper and Willie Nelson examine the remarkable career of actor-performer Kris Kristofferson, who successfully bridged the gap between Hollywood and Nashville.
11 June 1993
Chellappa (Jayaram), an orphan, runs a photo studio in deficit with his friends (Chinni Jayanth and Vadivelu).
26 February 1993
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
09 September 1993
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Have you watched Tora-san's Matchmaker yet? What did you think about it?
Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1993 Shochiku.
